I need a home heart rate monitor for a-fib patient?

Question

My mother is in a-fib and normal heart rate monitors
or blood rate monitors do not give an accurate heart
rate. The EKG machine that her doctor uses is able
to but it costs $12,000. Is there anything out there
under $3000 that would give accurate heart rate readings
for an atrial-fibrilation patient?

Answer 1

I agree there is no need for an expensive EKG machine. What is your reason for getting one. If her Doctor is worried about her heart rate, which can in A-fib have a big fluctuation, he can order a holter monitor which will record her heart rate for a period of time.

The basics information gotten from an EKG is simple enough to figure out, but a Cardiologist really needs to read the EKG to get the full picture.

Answer 2

A fib is an irregular heart beat which shows no p waves or missing p waves. The heart rate for someone in a fib is never the same from 1 minute to the next. Somtimes atrial fib goes uncontrolled which means the rate is above 100 and can be corrected with medication.
There is no need to monitor a fib at home. Many people are in a fib as a chronic condition and its usually treated with calcium channel blockers, beta blockers and blood thinners such as coumadin or somtimes plavix and aspirin. Sometimes in certain cases, the pts in a fib can be cardioverted in the hospital or even radiofrequency ablation is used to correct the condition. Most are not treated with such invasive measures.
You mother should be able to be monitored by her physician during her routine visits.
Spending thousands of dollars to watch someone in a fib on a monitor at home is a waste of money. Its also never going to be paid for by an insurance company and watching someone in a fib is actually pretty boring.
RN on a telemetry unit.

Answer 3

Try Ebay.

Answer 4

Let the old bag have her fun, buy her the machine

Answer 5

not sure. you may want to search the web to get an answer like that.