Merlin Check from home

I have a check up scheduled using my Merlin from home but I was not given any instructions. Will they call me in advance? Do I need to call them? If anyone has a Merlin and has had a check from home, please let me know how it was handled.
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Merlin check

by tst29m - 2012-09-18 06:09:18

I received a letter telling me exactly what night my check was scheduled. I did not have to do anything, and when I asked my cardiologist about it a couple of weeks later, he just said that all looked fine. So, I guess that Merlin just works quietly in the background!

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by boxxed - 2012-09-18 06:09:33

Depends on how recent your device is. You might have to manually transmit or all you may have to do is sleep by the transmitter during the scheduled night.

Technicians can program the scheduled date into the Merlin website, which then pushes that data out onto the transmitters. So the transmitter knows what day it has been scheduled for it to pull data from the device and then send it over. If you have a wireless model, it really is pretty seamless.

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by boxxed - 2012-09-18 07:09:10

There are two general means of transmission.

1) You have an event. This could be either the device realizing something is funny with itself during it's self-diagnostics, like suddenly high impedance or suddenly high threshold. Or it could be an intrinsic event, like a VT/VF episode or new onset of afib. Or it could be a shock or ATP therapy.

From the way I understand it, the device flags itself, telling itself that the moment it's within range of the transmitter it will tell the transmitter to accept the information dump as soon as possible and then push that information over to the Merlin website. The techs/reps then do their routine check on the websites to see if any events happened recently. This is why it's not that big of a deal to be away for a few days from your transmitter. If something happens, you'll still be able to push that information immediately the moment you get in range of that transmitter (ie come back home and sleep in your bed.)

2) Routine Checks. Like previously mentioned. They are scheduled into the website and then that data is pushed onto the transmitter and the transmitter PULLS information from the device on the specified time to then send over. This gets a bit muddled because some models have wireless functionality that allow seamless transfer, and some do not have that functionality and require a manual transmission, which means you'll get a different set of instructions. You personally don't have to worry because it sounds like you have a wireless.

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