Description
- ACCURATE AND DETAILED EKG RESULTS. KardiaMobile 6L records a medical-grade, six-lead EKG and provides FDA-cleared determinations of your heart rhythm in just 30 seconds.
- SIX LEADS, SIX TIMES THE DATA. Six-lead EKGs give you a more detailed view of your heart and more data to share with your doctor. With KardiaMobile 6L, you can detect AFib, Bradycardia, Tachycardia and Normal Sinus Rhythm right on your smartphone. KardiaMobile 6L does not check for heart attack.
- TRUSTED BY PROFESSIONALS: Recommended by doctors, KardiaMobile 6L is the world’s only FDA-cleared six-lead personal EKG
- COMPATIBLE WITH SMARTPHONES. Works with most smartphones and tablets. KardiaMobile 6L is compatible with most popular phones and tablets. To use your Kardia device, you must download the Kardia app on a compatible device. Visit alivecor.com/compatibility to check the list of compatible devices.
- NO SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED. Takes a six-lead EKG and detects Atrial Fibrillation, Bradycardia, Tachycardia, and Normal Sinus Rhythm without a KardiaCare subscription.
Magnus Almgren –
Cet appareil léger, facile d’emploi ma permis de détecter une arythmie cardiaque pouvant entrainer un AVC et au cardiologue de me prescrire un traitement adéquate.
Un appareil précieux, léger, très facile à utiliser avec des fonctionnalités très performantes, enregistrements, envoi au médecin des enregistrements, diagnostics sur les types d’arythmie.
J Siegel –
I am a physician. These are my personal opinions. I am not being paid for this review. This product works very well as a 6 lead ekg to give basic information about the heart rate and heart rhythm. It is better than a single lead EKG. There are no chest leads so it is not a 12 lead EKG that you would obtain at a doctor’s office, clinic, or hospital. But it is faster to take a 6 lead EKG without worrying about placement of chest leads. The product is a little bigger than a pack of chewing gum. One has to download the Kardia app using your mobile phone. Then register and open the app. It is easy to do a 6 lead EKG by crossing your left leg over the right leg like a figure 4 and then using 2 fingers on each hand to hold the rectangular stick resting on the skin of your left ankle. It takes the reading over a minute. There is often some interference initially on the tracing which then smooths out over several seconds. I have found the resulting tracing very accurate compared to my own baseline EKG. The company also offers the public a pay membership for cardiology EKG consultation. Using my iphone, I can screenshot sample EKG photos to text. Also the app will save the EKG tracing as a pdf to email or text to a physician. I purchased multiple units on Black Friday / Cyber Monday to give to family members. Given the reasonable pricing and important cardiac information available from this product, I think this is a great product that most families should own and can discuss this with their personal physician.
George Dawson –
I have an Apple Watch, 2 automatic blood pressure devices that record heart rate, and an oximeter that measures both oxygen concentrations and pulse. I need to know if I am in atrial fibrillation and more importantly – what the ventricular rate is. I had a recent cardiac procedure and for the first time realized that the watch and the blood pressure devices may have been measuring the atrial rate rather than the ventricular rate. The first sign I had of that was my palpable carotid pulse and the oximeter pulse were about half as much as what the watch and BP devices were measuring.
The difference between atrial and ventricular rates on a regular 12-lead ECG are obvious. When I heard that Kardia had a 6-lead ECG that was inexpensive and easy to use at home – I decided to try it.
The credit card sized device is easy to use. It does take some practice to record smooth wave forms but that is no different than the Apple Watch. 30 second ECGs are recorded and easily converted to PDFs that can immediately be emailed to your doctor or clinic. I was recording and emailing them within 10 minutes of opening the box. I have included an image of an ECG tracing I made on September 15, 2023 showing normal sinus rhythm.
The only downsides I have noted so far are minor and they include:
1: Extra services are for sale including additional algorithms for ECG interpretation. I can read ECGs so I did not consider that to be a big issue. It might be for a person who wants more than the very basic readings that do include atrial fibrillation. You can also consult with a Cardiologist through this app for a fee.
2: Deleting ECGs – the app gives you the choice to accept or rerecord ECGs during the initial save step. If you do save – there is no way that I can figure out to delete the files. It is easy to rapidly accumulate a large file of ECGs and I have not figured out how much memory these files are using. There are online instructions on how to delete the files but they do not appear to work for this specific device.
3: Getting used to doing the recording – to do the 6 lead ECG you needs to hold the device between the finger and thumb of your right and left hands and against the knee or ankle area of your left leg. If you waver too drastically the recording is rejected and you have to try again.
A 6-lead ECG doesn’t have chest leads – all of that information is not there. Regular 12-lead machine run by a tech is less likely to have significant artifacts so signal to noise is greater with a 12-lead ECG. Bundled into the cost of the 12 lead is a more extensive algorithm and a cardiologist read of the tracing. It is also important to remember that the ECG contains a lot of information and expertise interpreting it. In my opinion it is best to use it in collaboration with a physician who is following a known problem or suspects a problem rather than to think that it can be used as an independent diagnostic tool.
All things considered this is a very innovative, practical, and easy to use device that produced superior recordings at home that can be used by your personal physicians.
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FPA LGC –
I bought this due to a nurse stating I had a irregular heart beat and could not do any other measurements until local doctor gave an ECG which was 1 week later! so bought this small machine it came well packed with battery and clear instructions, easy to down load app for iPhone, instructions easy to follow, I went for basic 6 lead input with no yearly subscription easy to print out recordings for my doctor, I was relieved to see no AFIB but unsure how to read print out, this put my mind to rest, so when I took ECG at doctors it showed same readings as Kardia mobile, so for £149 a bit steep, but I now have a machine for future, ensure you wet your left knee or left ankle as this helps electrode, good continunity, As doctor states dont get paranoid taking daily! but we do…
Bill –
I’ve owned a few low cost home EKG devices, and this is by far the best, but there are some drawbacks…
Pros:
– Device and app are easy to use to take an EKG.
– Creates a nice 6-lead reading that can be saved in a PDF and sent to doctors (several have said this is useful and helps).
Cons:
– Requires a paid subscription if you want it to tell you about more than the most basic results (it will ignore and not tell you certain things unless you pay).
– Requires a phone/app to use it.
– Not marked for orientation which can be a problem if you don’t use it often and remember (have to remember their company logo and which way is up, which isn’t obvious).
– To avoid the paid subscription, you have to go through extra steps to save the results/PDF of each reading.
– The paid subscription is a money grab which forces you to buy services you may not need so you can also unlock the full result reporting in the app, which other devices provide as part of the purchase cost.
– Very often doesn’t sense/read well so skin almost always has to be moistened in some way (never had this problem with other competing devices).
This takes an EKG by holding the device with two hands (thumb/finger holding each side of it) and placing the back of it on your leg just above the knee, and holding for 30 secs. The app is easy to start and indicates if it is reading and the progress. Then shows the results, allows you to add notes, and you can also save/export it as a PDF.
The results are very useful and good, though I found we often have to dampen the skin to get good contact and a good reading. The device is small enough to carry with you, and you can also use your ankle instead of your leg/knee for a 6 lead reading, or just your hands for a simpler 2 lead reading (like the lower cost model of this device).
I definitely recommend it, and it is great for catching those events that only occasionally happen, so you can them send/show them to the doc. It’s also useful for things like eliminating false worry, or recording things and adding notes, for them to be reviewed by your doctor. I don’t like they way they limit the app function (reporting certain detected conditions) unless you pay a monthly subscription fee to keep in unlocked, but it will report the most basic ones, and if you just send/show this to your doc for review, the subscription isn’t really needed.
George Dawson –
I have experienced heart problems since 1999. Until now I had no way of telling exactly what was going on when I felt something wrong. The unit has already helped me determine I was in A-fib at one point. My Cardiologist has warned me about a-fib being a problem I have to live with. But knowing for sure makes it easier to know when I should rest or not worry about what I feel going on. The pairing to my I phone was a bit of a problem for me but their customer service gladly helped me through the entire process. I recommend Kardia to anyone who wishes to monitor their heart for problems.
MFR –
Vorab: Eine oft als “hilfreich” bewertete Rezension sagt aus, der Kardiologe des Rezensenten meinte, das Gerät würde nichts taugen, da nur die Ströme der Beine gemessen werden (ist so schon mal nicht ganz richtig, nur am Rande). Hierzu kann ich nur sagen: Wechsel deinen Kardiologen, lieber Rezensent!!!!
Natürlich erhält man kein vollumfängliches Bild zum Gesundheitszustand des Herzens! Dieser Anspruch wird auch nirgendwo erhoben!!! Mann kann aber sehr wohl einiges erkennen, Vorhofflimmern sowie -Flattern, was schon äußerst nützlich ist, aber noch bedeutend mehr, wenn auch primär für Kardiologen. Ausgewertet wird für die genannten Punkte nur Ableitung 1, korrekt. Aber Anhand der Ableitung 2 lässt sich einiges Präzise ausmessen (“… Des Weiteren gilt, dass die einzelnen Komponenten des EKGs möglichst in Ableitung II vermessen werden sollten…”, Zitat aus einem fachliterarischem Werk), auch die anderen Kanäle sind (für einen Kardiologen) durchaus sehr nützlich! Nicht umsonst verleihen mittlerweile nicht wenige Fachpraxen die kleinen Monitore an ihre Patienten! Sie sind hervorragend dazu geeignet, temporär salvenartig auftretende Extrasystolen zu erfassen, z.B. Diese treten oft nur selten und phasenweise auf. Und genau dann ist dieser “kleine Kardiologe” ein geniales Teil! Ein Kardiologe erkennt aus dem EKG bsp. aber auch respiratorische Arrhythmien, Schenkelblock,….. Für (viel) mehr braucht es natürlich Brustwandableitungen, aber auch das ist klar. Beide Versionen machen Sinn, sowohl das 1-Kanal als auch das 6-Kanal! Lasst euch ggf. von eurem Kardiologen beraten! Ich selbst habe mich bewusst für die 6-Kanal-Variante samt Kardia-Mitgliedschaft entschieden – trotz des Sendens der Daten in die USA. Die meisten nutzen WhatsApp, Google, Facebook etc., achten nicht auf Privat Policys, Cookies und dergleichen und mutmaßlich viele von jenen mokieren sich hier über die Datensenderei??? Ich nutze nichts von all dem und lasse meine Daten hier dennoch senden. Ich habe mich gründlich damit auseinander gesetzt und mir ist es das wert. Zwar bin ich kein Arzt, geschweige denn Kardiologe, arbeite aber im Gesundheitswesen, war auch in der Kardiologie tätig, habe viel mit Patienten zu tun, die mit Kardiovaskulären Ereignissen etc. zu tun haben und maße mir an zu behaupten, dass mein Fazit “Genialer, präziser “kleiner Kardiologe” zutreffend ist. Schaut auch gerne mal den Blog der “CardioPraxis Düsseldorf” zu dem Thema an (ich arbeite nicht für diese, bin nicht mal in der Nähe und habe Null mit denen zu tun), dieser ist neben einigen weiteren sehr interessant und für Laien sehr verständlich geschrieben. Ach ja, und es lässt sich AUCH OHNE ABO NUTZEN, ob 6 Kanal oder 1 Kanal; die automatische Auswertung unterscheidet sich lediglich etwas und beim Abo sind 4 Auswertungen pro Jahr durch einen Kardiologe inklusive. Wäre schön, wenn sich der ein oder andere genau mit dem Gerät beschäftigt, bevor er unqualifizierten Stuss schreibt.
Ich bin begeistert von dem Ding! So, ich habe fertig.
Radardog –
First bought the 1-L version since I really don’t need the extra features of the 6-L. But, the 1-L rarely communicated with the Kardia app on my phone. Since it uses the microphone of the phone, you need to be in a space away from extraneous noise. Returned the 1-L and got the 6-L. It uses Bluetooth for the connection. What a difference. It paired right away and there was no problem with the signal strength or quality. Since it can operate in 1-L or 6-L mode, I’m happy. If I should need the extra detail of the 6-L operation, it’s nice to know I have it available.