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Heart Rhythm Conditions | Last Active: Aug 10 2:21pm | Replies (128)
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No, you don't have to initiate the ECG. As long as you have the setting set to let you know, you will receive an alert if you are in A-fib longer than 10 minutes. You can always initiate the ECG as a backup, after the alert.
I believe the Galaxy Samsung watch also will do the same alert as Apple watch.
I will note here both watches are not medical grade ECG's, they are only single lead.
For me as someone that has no symptoms, I find it helpful.
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I don't have an Apple but a Fitbit so not sure of the methodology of it screening for AFib but it seems that they wait for a specific amount of time to pass while a condition that appears to be AFib is recorded and notifying the individual. So the individual with no symptoms may never know that they have had a short episode. May or may not be an issue for some depends on what your trying to track. Seems as though the medical community really doesn't know what to do about these very short periods of aFib. These personal devices are picking up episodes that at one time would never have been noticed or recorded.