{"id":171384,"date":"2025-12-02T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171384\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:32:23","slug":"cardiac-patients-in-ireland-endure-long-hospital-waits-for-wearable-heart-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/171384\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiac patients in Ireland\u00a0endure\u00a0long hospital\u00a0waits for wearable heart monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr Angie Brown, consultant cardiologist and medical director of the Irish Heart Foundation\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/14c028ab-632e-4197-9843-168519686808.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dr Angie Brown, consultant cardiologist and medical director of the Irish Heart Foundation<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Many patients are facing long delays for wearable monitors to check their hearts and help diagnose cardiac problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Holter monitors are gadgets that patients wear to monitor their heart rhythm for a day or longer to get a measure of what happens during their typical daily activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Angie Brown, consultant cardiologist and medical director of the Irish Heart Foundation Many patients are facing long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[615,4593,103,397,396,2120,61,60,6189],"class_list":{"0":"post-171384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-dublin","9":"tag-eilish-oregan","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-hse","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-labour-party"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}