Kardia Mobile - anyone use one ?
- by Pacer2019
- 2019-12-06 20:49:07
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I got my device in the mail yesterday ..... I did a reading and it said a cardiologist had to review and I could use it in 24 hours .
i am able to use now.
I have no idea how to read an EKG ......
all of the EKGs I do say "no Afib, unclassified , no tachycardia , or bradycardia but not normal per their algorithm... could be some other arrhythmias usually fast or slow heart rate or poor quality recording"
I had my wife do one and hers was "normal "
is anyone familiar with this ?
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In fact after the final "tweaks" of my pacemaker programming at the one year check up it is working so well that I forget I have it.
I had one for a year or two
by AgentX86 - 2019-12-06 23:25:39
I had one but it no longer showed me anything interesting.
The good: It does a great job as a single lead (the new model is a "six" lead) EKG. It shows a lot of arrhytmias, if you learn to read an EKG. That's not all that difficult. There are a lot of examples on the web.
The bad: It will only detect Afib and only decode/display NSR,Afib, or possible Afib. It won't automatically detect any other arrhythmias. That's by design. It's what they could get approval from the FDA. I'm not sure why it doesn't show Bradycardia (there are too many sorts of tachycardia for it to separate them. I don't think it's possible with only a single lead.
The ugly: It cannot display even an EKG for flutter. Flutter only shows on lead-3 of a 12-lead EKG. As I said above, it can't automatically detect Bradycadia (easy enough - a pulse below 50bpm) or tachycardia (too many variations).
The really ugly: It's not for us (pacemaker types). If you learn to read EKGs, it can still be useful but it doesn't understand the pacing spikes at all.
Bottom line, if you're not going to learn how to read EKGs, it doesn't do us any good. If you are, the six-lead model is a much better solution. The single lead is useful if your only issue is Afib. It will tell you whether you're in Afib and is really useful if you're doing a pill-in-the- pocket routine. Some doctors will look at the results if you email them (really easy to do).
I no longer have one because I was no longer using it. The reason I bought it turned out not to be a heart/pacing issue (all of the EKGs were normal) so I stopped using it. My son was just diagnosed with Afib, so I sent it to him.