Wierd ekg at first 5 seconds

[MONK-E]

Apologize if this is an un educated question. But the first 5 Or 6 seconds The EKG looks like It's very irregular or salt tooth looking. But then when my pulse Kicks in, it goes normal. Does anyone else get this?

[profoftone]

Can you post it? My Apple watch does calibrate in the first seconds, depending on the conductivity of the skin at that moment.

[Yachtsman]

Hi Assuming you are using a Kardia or similar device they take a few seconds to adjust noise filtering etc before you get a clean ECG trace. The first few seconds of the trace can be ignored.

All the best

Colin

[momist]

Frequently. On my trusty old Kardia Mobile, it often takes a few seconds for the algorithm to filter out the ambient noise, both audio and electrical, before it settles down to a regular display of the correct heart activity. Remember, it's picking up tiny electrical signals from your heart deep inside your chest, by looking for the traces of them down both arms! There's other stuff in our environment, and inside your body, generating this stuff, that has to be ignored.

[JOY2THEWORLD49]

Hi

All my ECGs show a high tooth and low mount line - it always says abnormal and says AF if diagnosed. 3 in 2021 each change to meds. 187, 156..H/R

On Diltiazem 120mg showed H/R 96 but now should shows 60s.

cheri JOY. 74. (NZ)