Objective:

To describe the degree of satisfaction and social, occupational and environmental impact of patients on our remote pacemaker monitoring programme run.

Method:

Prospective observational study including 160 patients on the remote pacemaker monitoring programme between 2016 and 2017. We handed out a satisfaction survey and quantified the decrease in CO2 emitted by reducing the number of visits.

Results:

The patients attended visits accompanied (86%) and by car (66%) most of the time. 96% of respondents said their degree of satisfaction was “good or excellent”. We estimated a saving in CO2 emissions of almost 10% for each remote monitoring cycle.

Conclusions:

The remote monitoring of pacemakers implemented by our arrhythmia unit reduces the social, occupational, financial and environmental impact.

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