ECG Wristwatch Option

[PrinzMongo]

I've been reading various posts about the utility of the Apple Watch heart monitor. I wanted to offer an option for those folk who don't live in the Apple ecosystem. I live in the Samsung ecosystem and have been wearing a Galaxy 4 & now 5 watch since I was Dx and successfully treated for Afib / SVT.

The watch seems to be as accurate as Apple Watch and my cardiologist uses the ECGs I bring to him. Samsung Health app is fulsome as well.

I kept the cost down recently by buying a Amazon returned/refurbished Galaxy 5 for ~$150 instead of a latest Galaxy 6 for upwards of $400-500.

I will confess that when I'm taking ECGs out in the wilderness, I carry my Kardia device as well as it seems a bit more reliable/less finicky, but the Galaxy is really handy for general monitoring and initial assessments.

Apple has delivered a really great device, but I think Samsung's device gets overlooked the way Texas Instruments calculators swamped Casio in the graphing calculator wars.

My two cents here, but it might offer a less expensive option for some folk.

Be well.

-PrinzMongo

Angelus Oaks/Redondo Beach, California

[bean_counter27]

There's several other Smart watches with ECG and AF detection that I know of including Fitbit Sense and Fitbit Charge 5, Withings Scanwatch and Scanwatch 2.

I also have a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 (Classic Cellular version) but rarely use it because of poor battery life (struggles to last through day if I use it regularly). Instead I wear my Withings Scanwatch - which is a hybrid watch. Its battery is supposed to last up to 30 days but for how I use it, probably up to a week. However, I stick it on charge each day while showering. That keeps it topped up to 100% when I put it back on straight after showering and allows me to wear to bed for additional coverage. YMMV.

I also have a Kardiamobile 6L, Wellue 24 hour heart monitor and Omron HEM7361T AF Blood Pressure Monitor.

[Physalis]

Maybe not terribly relevant but I bought my Apple watch in 2019 because I had a fall and I liked the fall detect function. I haven't had a fall since.

The ECG function led to me having an ablation in 2020.

Now I use it several times a day for its timer function.

[TopBiscuit in reply to Physalis]

My Apple watch regularly gets concerned that I've had a fall - usually when I'm flattening a garlic clove - but was completely unconcerned when I fell out of the pear tree in our garden while pruning it. 😂

I had my first AFib episode a couple of months after I'd got the Apple watch, and apart from a couple of tries at doing an ECG for the novelty value I couldn't really see the point of it. Until, that is, my heart started acting like a box of frogs in my chest and it told me that I was in something called Atrial Fibrillation, which I hadn't even heard of before that. Since then, I have to say, it's felt like a life saver. And even did get it right when I tripped and fell off our backdoor step!

[Ppiman]

My cousin has this and it seems the equal of my Apple Watch although the Apple health apps are, to my mind, a touch better honed and intuitive.

Steve

[kliving]

I ended up getting the Samsung watch 6 about a month ago, mostly because my EP strongly suggested I get some smartwatch to monitor what was going on. I am not in the apple echo system anymore, and Samsung makes good products as well. Also, I have been able to determine PACs (with a little practice), AFIB and see if anything is going on, as well as monitor my heart rate and sleep cycles. Perhaps not for everyone, but I have decided it was a worthwhile investment. I also like the fact that I don't have to carry my phone around with me, as I like to leave it on my desk and forget about it.