Kardia Mobile
 

Anyone have experience with this?

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not yet

but I gave santa my otc card and asked for one for x-mass

let you know in a week

I have had them for many years.
First the single lead version, then got the 6 lead when it came out.
Not much to say, other than it’s an excellent device and a must have if you have any health issue where you and/or your doctor need to regularly check your EKG.
It’s been very reliable, has great features (for example not can be set up where your readings are automatically sent to your doctor, etc).
It’s not too expensive.
Once you buy it there’s no subscription required to use it and it has almost full functionality. There is a subscription service with a fee, but I think the only thing that gets you is the auto sending to your Dr.
If you don’t need your Dr to see every single reading, you can always manually send readings by various ways.
It’s a pretty amazing device, actually.

The ads bother me. You can't get the kind of QRS complex shown on the screen based on touching just two fingers to conductive pads. I speculate that demonstration of its use shows a largely synthetic waveform.

Having said that, I think it would be a good device to seeing tachycardia, bradycardia, PVC's, AF, etc. because these are all readily discernible from a rate-based approach (one that could also be seen from an SpO2 monitor if it showed waveforms and not just values).

However, the 6-lead version could be very good, as many patient monitors (especially older ones) used standard 5-lead electrodes. Of course, 12-lead electrodes are better because of the number of vectors it shows, but those are a bit cumbersome for regular home use.

FINALLY

the wife had phone problems so we delayed

anyway simple blue tooth hook up after d/l the app
and it correctly guessed we were both alive
with EKG charts saying we will remain that way for the present

test will be if remains so when one is feeling a bit off
anyway with the medicare OTC money it was an eazy small item to use up the months funds
so 4.99 +tax on the 75 cheap and small if you wonder about your heart

I have no idea if they warn of heart attack or any other events !

Interesting and wow. Home EKG for $130. Ain't technology grand!

I like to measure/instrument things. I can see one of those in my future. Probably not now, but eventually.

Been using the app since Xmas.

Being able to e-mail my cardiologist with a EKG is a good thing.

App converts to PDF for ease of viewing by your doctor.

I have had and used one for at least 3 years, cost $69. back then. Uses and app on my I Phone. I had an EKG in the Dr office in Nov. and also did the Kardia Mobile at the same visit, and the Doc compared them and said he is impressed with the device. I am going in and out of AFIB and this little gem keeps track.

A few years back I used an Apple Watch for running occasional EKG’s (frquent PVC’s). Mostly to rule out A-fib. Very easy.