Samsung 6 smart watch

[Monitorman]

Does anyone use the BP and ECG facilities on a Samsung6 smart watch ? I occasionally get AF reading but my cardiologist says the results are unreliable.

[davebal67]

Hi, I have 3 fitness watches. I bought the Galaxy 6 because of the BP and ECG function. I don't have Afib and the watch has never recorded it. The ECG is pretty accurate as it looks similar to the ECG I had done in hospital settings.

Ecg

[Sazznyre]

Yes I have this watch and the BP is excellent on it. The ECG has recorded 3 Afibs in my 9 months of post HA but it's not consistent enough to warrant a doc visit.

[Dyllibobs]

I have the Samsung 6 watch. My bp readings differ to my bp machine, only slightly but enough to make me distrust my watch. I find monitoring it too much stresses me out as I was watching it everytime I moved. I just look now at the end of the day to see if there are any scary anomalies.

[LucyBoo21]

Yes I have this watch. Mine kept on recording AF so I went to my cardiologist. He reassured me it was actually picking up sinus tachycardia not true AF.

If you look at your recordings, if there is consistent spacing between the peaks, it's unlikely to be AF. He said AF would be all over the place and not uniform.

I think the watch is brilliant, although I don't have AF, it did pick up an irregularity on me so did work in a way and that should always be checked.

The BP function also picked up consistent high blood pressure and now I'm on blood pressure medication which has lowered it to a safer level.

I would show your GP the recordings and get their opinion.

[honeybubs]

mine showed AF and Cardiologist said it wasn’t but was picking up Bigeminy arrhythmia but showing as AF. There are different arrhythmias and ectopic beats and they need to be identified. Good luck.

[Yellow26]

I will be honest here about these watches, my cardiologist told me to throw it in the bin, I have permanent AF for over ten years and times it picks it up then doesn’t .

[JaninS]

There was a useful BBC4 programme recently called, I think, Sliced bread. You will find it no doubt on BBC iplayer. It did a comparison of different watch type fitness trackers. About 3 weeks ago. Sliced bread is a series where they test things to see if they are worth using/buying. Basically said that none of them are as accurate as medical ones but can be useful to pick up trends over time. As someone else has said, it's important not to get hooked on looking at them too frequently but I have found using one reassuring at times.

[Stentsandrun]

Put simply, your cardiologist is correct, why would he not be?

[Nelson71]

Ive an Apple Watch which measures HR. I had my last cardiac rehab this week. My apple watch correspond exactly to the heart rate monitor ( a strap across your chest) attached by the nurse. It also can detect any as fib and you can check the last weeks readings. It gives me a report that says Afib is 2% or higher once a week. It is an expensive watch though

[bluemoon572]

I use my Samsung watch's EKG repeatedly as I have PACs,PVCs and occasional short runs of wenckebach 2nd degree AV block. On a few occasions the watch concluded I had A Fib when I had sinus rhythm with frequent PACs and another occasion during a short run of wenckebach 2nd degree AV block. I interpreted EKGs for many years & can recognize these errors. In your case you can email the rhythm strip to your cardiologist for validation.