I found out about this after being diagnosed with afib/flutter and it's been helpful for my sports related lifestyle recovery. Zero instruction from the electro cardiologist and you don't get to talk to them until 6-7 months after the ablation. The 4th Frontier is not cheap but produces an ECG trace, other training related metrics and works with most sports related GPC/HR computers.
My favorite BP machine was the Omron 786N which was a 10 series, I believe. At the time it came out, they had an amazing app it synced to. I can't recall exactly what happened with the app they transitioned to, but I recall it being a disaster.
I tried the Omron Evolv (and still have it), but I don't use it. I find it too fiddly to put on. And in my experience, velcro wears out quickly on BP machines, and I realized you can't replace the cuff on the Omron Evolv as the whole thing is the cuff.
I've been using the Welch Allyn 1700 Series, which also does not use the deflationary measurement technique, but has the more separate traditional monitor and cuff. And the monitor itself is very small. Its app though is also terrible and hasn't been updated in years. The only way to sync is to take a reading, and if the phone's display turns off while syncing you lose the values it was trying to sync, and it gives you no warning of when you're up to the 100 values the monitor will hold before it starts deleting them and they need to be synced.
The blood pressure monitor itself, though, seems quite good. The cuff lasts much longer than the ones on the Omron machines did, which I'd have to replace quite often. It seems like a cuff you'd find in a doctor's office.
If Omron came out with the 786N again and their old app I'd purchase that, despite the cuffs wearing out quite often. They have new offerings with the traditional style, but too many offerings to make sense of and they look large and bulky now having side by side displays.
I wish I could tell you what I loved so much about the original Omron app and what changed, but this was years and years ago. I do know I still 2 years of data from the original Omron app in a spreadsheet and the app made it very easy to do things like creating spreadsheets. I think it got confusing when they started merging with AliveCor and came out with a new app and both Omron and AliveCor apps both wanted to have access to each device. I can't recall exactly what happened. Something like a civil war between them each copying each others' functions and it was a mess.
The Kardia 6 Lead device is not as inconvenient as you suggest. You do not need to pull up your pants leg or roll down a sock. I simply put a spot of water on my pants leg and apply the 6L to that. Works a treat and the spot evaporates quickly thereafter.
Ian,
I've been using a 4th Frontier device and like it a lot.
Hope to write a full "review" of it at some point.
Dr. P
I found out about this after being diagnosed with afib/flutter and it's been helpful for my sports related lifestyle recovery. Zero instruction from the electro cardiologist and you don't get to talk to them until 6-7 months after the ablation. The 4th Frontier is not cheap but produces an ECG trace, other training related metrics and works with most sports related GPC/HR computers.
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My favorite BP machine was the Omron 786N which was a 10 series, I believe. At the time it came out, they had an amazing app it synced to. I can't recall exactly what happened with the app they transitioned to, but I recall it being a disaster.
I tried the Omron Evolv (and still have it), but I don't use it. I find it too fiddly to put on. And in my experience, velcro wears out quickly on BP machines, and I realized you can't replace the cuff on the Omron Evolv as the whole thing is the cuff.
I've been using the Welch Allyn 1700 Series, which also does not use the deflationary measurement technique, but has the more separate traditional monitor and cuff. And the monitor itself is very small. Its app though is also terrible and hasn't been updated in years. The only way to sync is to take a reading, and if the phone's display turns off while syncing you lose the values it was trying to sync, and it gives you no warning of when you're up to the 100 values the monitor will hold before it starts deleting them and they need to be synced.
The blood pressure monitor itself, though, seems quite good. The cuff lasts much longer than the ones on the Omron machines did, which I'd have to replace quite often. It seems like a cuff you'd find in a doctor's office.
If Omron came out with the 786N again and their old app I'd purchase that, despite the cuffs wearing out quite often. They have new offerings with the traditional style, but too many offerings to make sense of and they look large and bulky now having side by side displays.
I wish I could tell you what I loved so much about the original Omron app and what changed, but this was years and years ago. I do know I still 2 years of data from the original Omron app in a spreadsheet and the app made it very easy to do things like creating spreadsheets. I think it got confusing when they started merging with AliveCor and came out with a new app and both Omron and AliveCor apps both wanted to have access to each device. I can't recall exactly what happened. Something like a civil war between them each copying each others' functions and it was a mess.
More Talking Heads references please!
I have described that method and it helps.
But you are still dependent on 3 stable contact points compared to 2
And many users find their recordings have less artifact with single lead
The Kardia 6 Lead device is not as inconvenient as you suggest. You do not need to pull up your pants leg or roll down a sock. I simply put a spot of water on my pants leg and apply the 6L to that. Works a treat and the spot evaporates quickly thereafter.