Head-to-Head Comparison of the AliveCor Heart Monitor and Microlife WatchBP Office AFIB for Atrial Fibrillation Screening in a Primary Care Setting
| Autor: | Louise Pun, Yu-Fai Wong, Michelle Man-Ying Wong, Pak-Hei Chan, Chun-Ka Wong, Chung-Wah Siu, Daniel Wai-Sing Chu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Microlife
medicine.diagnostic_test Head to head business.industry Atrial fibrillation 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology medicine.disease Palpation Clinical trial 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Blood pressure Physiology (medical) medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Medical emergency Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Prospective cohort study business Stroke |
| Zdroj: | Circulation. 135:110-112 |
| ISSN: | 1524-4539 0009-7322 |
| Popis: | The diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (AF) before stroke is a priority in successful stroke prevention. Despite guidelines that advocate pulse palpation for AF screening, it is not performed routinely in clinical practice. Various handheld or smartphone devices designed to specifically detect AF have gained much popularity. Of these state-of-the-art devices, the AliveCor Heart Monitor, a smartphone-based heart monitor that incorporates dry electrodes mounted on a smartphone case capable of recording a single-lead ECG, has already been US Food and Drug Administration-cleared and Conformite Europeene-marked. In Europe, an automatic oscillometric blood pressure device that incorporates a specific algorithm to detect AF (Microlife WatchBP Office AFIB, Microlife AG) has been recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to screen for AF during office blood pressure measurement in patients ≥65 years of age. These new devices have typically been evaluated in relatively small populations and not compared head to head. Their general use for widespread AF screening in a primary healthcare setting remains questionable. We report the findings of a prospective AF screening study coordinated by the University of Hong Kong and the Department of … |
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