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Atrial Flutter

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Thanks you for the your feed back. I actually sent my EKG to Kardia to be interpreted Their reply was SVT with no secondary observations. It's quite a nifty device. Kardia, for those are unfamiliar with it. I've reviewed a number of examples on the Internet for Arial Flutter none of them match what my EKG looks like no "saw tooth" waves in any lead. The final comment from the EP doc was he couldn't "rule out" atrial flutter but he also said he couldn't or wouldn't interpret the Kardia EKG readings. I suppose he thinks they undiagnostic?

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@heartache The Kardia 6L is a pretty nifty device for the price, but it is a poor substitute for a proper 6 lead ECG and it isn't a 12 lead, which the cardio/EP team would want in order to get a definitive diagnosis. The EP I went to did my index ablation, but I was in the ICU six whole days later and shortly put on amiodarone because my heart was in a nasty chaotic arrhythmia. I went through the ten week blanking period, where the heart calms and all the multiple lesions heal up to scar tissue, and then comes the Holter monitor worn for about a day or less. In my case, my Holter showed a lot of PACs, not a good sign. About six weeks later, I broke into AF again, but this time I made my Samsung Galaxy watch take an ECG. I uploaded the file to my PC from my phone's controlling health app, and sent it to his nurse. He immediately accepted the Galaxy's assessment and agreed I had recurrent AF, and scheduled me for an ablation three months later. So, while the wearables are by no means foolproof, or even very reliably accurate, they can indicate a potential problem and the conscientious EP or cardiologist should invite you in for a proper 12 lead assessment. In my case, he didn't want to see me....he believed my watch's depiction which was my typical chaotic rhythm, no obvious P-waves before each QRS, and the peak-to-peaks were very obviously variable. He could hardly argue. 😀