Apple Watch AF software now available in UK.

“As well as the capacity to take an ECG reading, it can monitor your heart rate in the background to spot if you may have atrial fibrillation, or AFib, an irregular heart rhythm which can lead to serious medical issues such as stroke. This new feature has also just gone live in the UK and is common to all Apple Watch models running the latest watchOS 5 software. Only the first-generation Apple Watch is not capable of using watchOS 5.”

See: independent.co.uk/life-styl...

[irene75359]

Thank you - on the road at the moment but will update tonight.

[S11m]

Hi, Hidden

Hi, I have the Apple Watch 4, and I have taken ECGs with it.

I also have a Kardia (not now working).

An irregular pulse is an indication of AF, but it does not mean that your atria are beating - or filling the ventricles as they should do.

When they did the two catheter Abrasions, they zapped my atria... so that I rarely see any p-waves on the ECG.

With the Kardia, taking an ECG right hand to left knee was a standard technique which (sometimes) made p-waves visible... is it possible to do this with the Apple Watch 4?

I have a two-lead pacemaker.

[Hidden in reply to S11m]

Thanks for the reply.