Excuse my ignorance on this matter but I keep seeing posts on here talking about Kardia. What exactly is it, does it measure your heart rhythm? I see there is an app and possibly some hardware you can buy for it. My watch measures my heart rate but probably not in as much detail as the Kardia I suppose.
Although I have been in permanent AF for many years, on the whole it hasn't bothered me much until recently so I am trying to get re-educated in all things AF again!
Much more than an App or gadget - it’s an self taking ECG you can carry in your pocket.
Learn all about from their website.
By the way, the inventor sometimes makes contributions on this site and has helped reassure me.
The AliveCor Kardia mobile is a small handheld devices that works alongside an app downloaded to your smartphone or tablet. It can perform an ECG and detect possible AF within 30 seconds. You will also have the ability to share your ECG with your health care professionals. For further details - including a short demo video please visit : heartrhythmalliance.org/pro...
It’s a small device u can order on Amazon , costs about $80, tells your heart rate, and produces a reading to look for afib, like an ekg does.
Having used both and gone over the results with my EP cardiologist, I don't think my Kardia (the "advanced determinations" 6L version) measures much more than my Apple Watch myself, only that it can label what it measures a bit more precisely. I imagine Apple are requesting similar permission to do this, myself. What else the Kardia can label seems to me to be mostly not of much consequence because the Watch shows them also, just doesn’t label them (such as ectopic beats). My Kardia has also labelled runs of ectopic beats as "AF" wrongly a few times at least.
If your permanent AF is suddenly troublesome, I would consider asking for an echo or cardiac MRI (or consider private tests - cost maybe £800) to find out what might, if anything, have changed.
Steve
Thanks Ppiman I have an appointment with my EP in July to discuss what to do next so will discuss this with him then.
Yes, my Withings MoveECG watch produced identical results to my two lead Kardia. The 'difference' is in the cost. The watch cost over £200, and only lasted just beyond it's warranty. The Apple Watch costs very much more, and also requires that you already own or acquire an iPhone. The Kardia costs around £100, and is likely to work with whatever phone or tablet you already have, whether Apple or Android.
Thanks for the replies. Not sure it essential at this stage for me. I know I am in permanent AF so a reading confirming this won't change anything. My Garmin watch keeps good record of my current heartbeat so that should suffice for now.
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