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Any devices that will alerts with an audible alarm for AFIB?
Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Jul 1 3:45pm | Replies (14)Comment receiving replies
None that I know of. While there are many detectors, from finger pads to smart watches and smart rings, none of them is meant to run continuously, especially on a small battery, and none of them have the provision for alerting the person when it happens....not in real time. I am not familiar with the Apple watch function, but the Samsung I wear, and the various Kardia devices, and the various rings, will give you sleep data and HR data, plus an ECG occasionally. Just not an alarm if you go into AF.
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The Apple Watch will track your atrial fibrillation and even give you the ekg. It lets you know what percentage of time your in AF!
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I don't have an Apple watch but do have a Fitbit watch. It monitors for aFib but technically not constantly. It monitors in some format of overlapping time periods. But I often wonder of the accuracy of these personal monitors. Consider the process of having an ECG at your doctor's office where you're usually on a table, not moving and reasonably calm. This is considered the "standard" method. Now we use a watch with one contact surface and no doubt some form of AI to produce a variation of the "standard". Makes me wonder sometimes.