Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Support Group
Atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) is an abnormal heart rhythm (cardiac arrhythmia) which involves the two small, upper heart chambers (the atria). Heart beats in a normal heart begin after electricity generated in the atria by the sinoatrial node spread through the heart and cause contraction of the heart muscle and pumping of blood.
It's a Omron HCG-801, that was suggested by Petey.
I like it, 30 sec ECG's are easily taken, they are stored in a SD memory card, and can be viewed immediately.
You can download the memory card to you PC, where they are much more readable than on the device. I wish you could download by USB, a minor deficiency.
Things I learned:
My Heart Rate (HR) measured by the ECG is very consistent with the HR measured by a very cheap CMS50DL pulse oxymeter, this means I can trust the oxymeter HR.
My heart rhythm is very regular, but occasionally there is a short interval, most of the time followed by a long interval, with the total duration of the 2 equal to the total duration of 2 regular intervals.
My P wave is much smaller than the T wave.
I plan to ask the cardiologist what are the implications.
One question I have is whether the wave shapes differ from the ones of a full ECG because you have only 2 points of contact, finger and chest.
No software for detection of AFib or aFlutter from collected data is provided, although good progress has been recently done in this area:
I like it, 30 sec ECG's are easily taken, they are stored in a SD memory card, and can be viewed immediately.
You can download the memory card to you PC, where they are much more readable than on the device. I wish you could download by USB, a minor deficiency.
Things I learned:
My Heart Rate (HR) measured by the ECG is very consistent with the HR measured by a very cheap CMS50DL pulse oxymeter, this means I can trust the oxymeter HR.
My heart rhythm is very regular, but occasionally there is a short interval, most of the time followed by a long interval, with the total duration of the 2 equal to the total duration of 2 regular intervals.
My P wave is much smaller than the T wave.
I plan to ask the cardiologist what are the implications.
One question I have is whether the wave shapes differ from the ones of a full ECG because you have only 2 points of contact, finger and chest.
No software for detection of AFib or aFlutter from collected data is provided, although good progress has been recently done in this area:
It came in very handy to check for silent Afib after my ablation. Both my cardio and EP know I own my own monitor and approve of it.
So I guess what I'm trying to say that it is nothing more than a personal preference .
For people who think they are dying, it saves you a trip to the ER because you can easily see your heart rate and that you are in afib, not ventricular fibrillation. It also costs a fraction of ER visits, anxiety, and waiting time.
You can learn if you are really in afib or not when you have symptoms and also when you have afib (after exercise, triggers, sleep).
If you have had an ablation or are on no blood thinners and want to detect silent afib, it can do that.
If your doctor wants to see what you are talking about or just review what you have, it saves time (a picture is worth a thousand words). So if you have weird symptoms after exercise, you can show that to your EP.
If you were going into a dangerous arrythmia, that would show up.
You could identify what a holter monitor would miss if you didn't have a holter monitor permanently glued to your chest.
If you want to se if you are in aflutter, that can easily be determined by looking for the sawtooth F Waves.
If you want to maintain your sanity because afib drives you nuts, this can give you confidence.
I brought mine to my appointment and my EP was surprised at how it looked just like the ECG she did that day.
Note: If you are in any kind of abnormal heart rhythm, it gives you a waning "See your Dr, abnormal heart rhythm". same thing with tachycardia or bradycardia.
petey
Am I in afib.
Am I in Aflutter.
Do I have some other arrythmia.
Am I in brady or tachcardia.
It can tell if you are in NSR.
Welcome to the 21st century! :-)
Look online under Google Images for afib, NSR, aflutter.
petey