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How Wearable Tech Can Help Monitor Your Heart Health

MIBHS

By identifying patterns, users can understand how their heart responds to exercise, stress, or relaxation. Detection of Irregular Heart Rhythms Devices such as the Apple Watch or Fitbit Sense can detect irregular heart rhythms, including atrial fibrillation (AFib).

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Syncope while on a treadmill

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

This strip was obtained: Apparent Wide Complex Tachycardia at a rate of 280 What do you think? Because the patient was exercising, which increases sympathetic tone, facilitating AV conduction. Troponins 34>33>43, likely secondary to myocardial injury from tachycardia. What do you want to do? Why such rapid AV conduction?

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Wide-complex tachycardia that didn’t follow the rules

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Initial ECG in the ED: Presenting ECG : Wide-complex tachycardia at a rate about 200. This is overwhelmingly likely to be ventricular tachycardia, even if only age and medical history are considered. Nevertheless, the widths of both the QRS complex and the RS duration are similar in both the old ECG and the tachycardia.

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Cardiomatics guide: Analyzing arrhythmias made easy

Cardiomatics

Sinus tachycardia – sinus rhythm above 100 bpm is a sinus tachycardia. In healthy individuals occurs during exercising or strong emotions. Ventricular tachycardia – more than 7 consecutive complexes originating from ventricles at a rate of > 100 bpm. Usually does not exceed 160 bpm.