Telephone Transmitter Instructions

Telephone Transmitter Instructions

Your telephone transmitter will allow you to send (transmit) your heart rhythm and rate from home.

Your physician has instructed you to call the Arrhythmia Monitoring Laboratory either:

  • when you experience certain symptoms
  • or at specific times (every week or month)

When you first receive the transmitter, you need to call in a baseline reading once a week for three months, or as ordered by your physician.

How to Use the Telephone Transmitter

  1. Put on the wristbands with the flat plate on the inside of your wrists. Place the wristband with the white wire on your right arm, and the wristband with the black wire on your left arm. If needed, pull the wristbands up your arms for a snug fit.
  2. Moisten the skin under the flat plates of the wristbands with water or rubbing alcohol.
  3. Call the Arrhythmia Monitoring Laboratory. Please identify yourself by name. Report that you are having symptoms and would like to send an EKG.
  4. When instructed, press POWER to turn the unit ON.
  5. Place the phone in the cradle.
  6. Hold as still as possible during your transmission.
  7. After 45 seconds, or when the Alert light flashes and you hear a beeping sound, pick up the phone to talk to the clinician.
  8. Press POWER to turn the unit and alarm OFF when the session ends.
  9. A report will be given to your physician on the next business day. If you need to speak to your physician, please call his or her office directly.

Battery Replacement Instructions for the Telephone Transmitter

  1. Turn the transmitter OFF.
  2. Remove the battery compartment door.
  3. Remove the old battery.
  4. Replace with a new 9-volt alkaline battery. Align the battery to match the diagram on the battery compartment door.
  5. Replace the battery compartment door.

How to Return the Transmitter

Please return the transmitter promptly at the end of the monitoring period.

  • Return all parts of the transmitter.
  • Please return the transmitter using the packing envelope you received along with the transmitter. You may drop off the package at any UPS store, UPS drop box, Staples store, Office Depot store, or arrange a home pick-up by calling UPS at 800.377.4877.
  • Please return the recorder to: Cleveland Clinic Arrhythmia Monitoring Laboratory, J2-29500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 44195.
  • If you need help returning the transmitter, please call the Arrhythmia Monitoring Laboratory.
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