Any devices that will alerts with an audible alarm for AFIB?

Posted by sky92 @sky92, Jun 21 9:55pm

Are there any devices that one could wear that would have an audible alert if one goes into AFIB during sleep?

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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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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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That's good to know. Thanks for passing it on.

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I am worried that my husband will go into AFIB while sleeping. We are new to AFIB, sadly, and he is completely unaware when it is happening. Yeesh. I don't like the idea of spending my life without him in it.

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As my doctor told me when I was diagnosed with A-fib and was totally freaked out, "this isn't going to kill you." Unless your husband has a totally rapid arrhythmia, he may not even be aware it is off. It certainly takes getting used to. If it comes and goes, he can pursue adjusting meds or look at lifestyle changes but it won't kill him!

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I had the same question. I’ve been designing a device to do that with an Arduino (microcontrollers that people who like electronics play with). I’ve been tracking my heart rate at night with a wellue ring so I know I’m never above 100 (actually 85, average is 43) if I’m not in afib. I’m using a heart rate sensor that will fire a buzzer if my heart rate goes above 100 for more than 10 seconds. I’m a terrible programmer and haven’t settled on a design yet. My wellue ecg device can be programmed to buzz at different heart rates but I don’t like sleeping with it on. It is useful when I’m in afib. My ablation was may 6 and so far no afib. I’m feeling so much better. My Apple Watch told me my walking HR was 74 before my ablation, now it is 64 and I walk faster. If your heart rate is all over the place at night this wouldn’t work.

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Can't speak for an Apple device but with my Fit bit I use the high and low hearth rate monitoring to alert me to a possible case of Afib . Whether its a true case of Afib or not I am not sure but over say a year i have been given an alert from the watch for having a rate over 100 for 10 minutes and not indicating an exercise during that period. It seems to be a more reliable monitoring event that the actual monitoring of Afib.

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