Check out this new Wellue Monitor which is much more affordable with a little AI

[Quest4NSR]

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[Ppiman]

I've been close to buying their excellent AI version but with the post Christmas bank balance not yet normalised, it is having to wait. It's over £100 more at Amazon, annoyingly, than direct from the manufacturer as I'd rather buy from them with their five months free credit and excellent guarantee systems.

I had the cheaper one for a while but swapped it for a Kardia about eighteen months ago. It is the equal of the Kardia, but doesn't label the arrhythmias at all, except as "irregular beats". For £10-00 a month extra, which I've now deemed not worthwhile, the Kardia offers "advanced determinations" and labels a few more common arrhythmias.

On balance, I think the Kardia is useful only if you have AF or PAF, but, even then, it tells you no more than you already know. For those of us with mixed arrhythmias (ectopics of various kinds and occasional AF) the new AI Wellue seems by far the best home device available - but for £200-£350 depending from where you buy it.

Steve

[Quest4NSR in reply to Ppiman]

What I like about this one is its a Kardia type and more, gives you a live reading on the device itself along with all the bells and whistles in the App. What's cool is the length of time you can record an ECG up to a 5 min blast where Kardia can only do 30 secs, great for peeps finding Kardia keeps missing the events by a min or two. 99 bucks converted into pounds sterling is a fab deal. I have the more expensive stick on one but this is Kardia on steroids and for 99 bucks 81 pounds sterling. I'll be getting one for sure direct with wellue

[Ppiman in reply to Quest4NSR]

I think you are right and that Wellue are certainly trying hard to compete at the top of the consumer market of late. However, the Kardia 6L at least can be set to record longer than 30 seconds (although I gather it only "reads" the first 30 seconds using its algorithms).

I just found that for £10.00 a month, it wasn't telling me very much that was useful, and that now I have stopped paying that, all it tells me is "NSR" or "Unclassified" which, being a touch cynical, seems something of a ploy to get back my tenner a month! The more expensive AI version of the Wellue provides a free and very comprehensive AI interpretation and can be run for a day, I believe, although not while exercising. One or two people here have written in highly of it.

Steve

[Quest4NSR in reply to Ppiman]

Yeah, I have the Full AI Wellue that you place on the chest and this device steered my EP to consider new areas of my heart to ablate. I would have never have got that data without it, yes you can do up to 24 hrs and I use it when I need to do a dip check or if I'm going to be active Gardening. This new mid range one looks brilliant for the Kardia fans who are on a budget who would like to grab better data for longer I guess and still does the AI interpretation for your EP for only 81 pounds or 99 dollars

[Ppiman in reply to Quest4NSR]

Does it give an AI interpretation? I thought that was only the expensive model (at about $350 / £300)?

[Quest4NSR in reply to Ppiman]

Of sorts, it say its Irregular for you to print off for your EP or send file on email. The amount of Unclassifieds I get it wouldn't be a game changer for me but the beauty of this mid range is the longer recording times really. It doesn't do the full AI report like my top of the range one I have.

[Ppiman in reply to Quest4NSR]

Thanks. With my very infrequent AF episodes and much greater number of ectopics of various kinds and mild tachycardia, I'm thinking the AI version might be more useful. With the current mess that we call a health system in the UK, any devices like this might prove to be very useful.

Steve

[baba in reply to Quest4NSR]

You state:"What's cool is the length of time you can record an ECG up to a 5 min blast where Kardia can only do 30 secs"

You are incorrect as regards Kardia, it can be set to record up to 5 minutes. The automated analysis only interprets the first 30 seconds, but you have the full 5 minutes saved in history, this can be studied or shared with your medical team.

[OzRob]

I have a problem with monitors that take readings on demand. I have a Withings AF watch which does something very similar, you take a reading when you feel you have ectopics or AF.

Initially I thought the watch was great, I was capturing data to monitor my AF and to share with my cardiologist.

This type of device may be OK for someone that experiences during the waking hours, if you have Vagal Af where the episodes occur at night it can make your AF worse.

At night I slept very little as I was always ready to use my watch to record my AF, some nights getting only 3 or 4 hours sleep due to my alertness.

I would suggest anyone reading this to consider the Wellue AI Unit that you sleep with, it will record your whole night and you get a good nights sleep.

[philologus]

The one for $99 that has leads is bigger but looks good to me because I find that my current Kardia struggles to record because of 'poor connection'.

Any thoughts please?

[ozziebob]

Not sure what you mean about longer recording times? My Kardia 6L can be set, via the App, to record ECGs up to 5 mins long, although the resulting immediate determination only uses the first 30 secs, as has been said.

Are you saying your cheaper Wellue device analyses the full 5 mins when returning an immediate determination?