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AliveCor (Kardia) Has A Premature Beat Problem: How PVCs and PACs Confuse The Mobile ECG Device

17 Aug 2017
The skeptical cardiologist has many patients who are successfully using their AliveCor/Kardia devices to monitor for episodes of atrial fibrillation (afib). However, a significant number of patients who have had…
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Sustained Atrial Fibrillation or Not: The Vagaries and Inaccuracies of AliveCor/Kardia and Computer Interpretation of ECG Rhythm

15 Feb 2017
The skeptical cardiologist has often sung the praises of the AliveCor Mobile ECG for home and office heart rhythm monitoring (see  here and here.) However, there is a significant rate…
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AliveCor Mobile ECG Update: Successes and Failures

27 Nov 2016
The  AliveCor/Kardia mobile ECG device is a really nifty way to monitor your heart rhythm. Since acquiring the third generation device (which sits within or on my iPhone case and communicates…
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The Perfect Christmas Gifts for the Palpitating or Hypertensive In Your Life

20 Dec 2015
As December draws ever closer to the twenty-fifth you may find yourself  behind the wheel of a large automobile puzzling over the perfect gift for your loved ones. Fear not, for…
Atrial Fibrillation

AliveCor Mobile ECG Misidentifies One Patient’s Heart Rhythm

10 Sep 2015
The skeptical cardiologist has been evaluating the AliveCor mobile ECG device for use with a smartphone to detect atrial fibrillation.  In my initial post on this I found it to…
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