Veterinary Heart Monitor from AliveCor - any reviews?

Dobe_Mom · Aug 30, 2014

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with this product: AliveCor Vet - Veterinary Heart Monitor. It is an ECG machine that can be hooked up to an iphone and has an app that will record the ECG and can load the scans online to a database. It is only $200.

I would like to potentially use it as a screening tool to monitor changes in ECG on my dog, in close consultation with my vet.

Here is a video on how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RczVPKsiT0U

Thanks in advance.

ellenm · Aug 30, 2014

I have no info on this but am curious to see how well it works. I have a holter monitor from Alba Medical for routine holtering.

Dobe_Mom · Aug 30, 2014

A holter is good, and I am considering one. But the application I want for this particular equipment is different that what we would do with a holter. I want to use this on a dog with diagnosed occult DCM to screen for progression disease on a regular basis at home. I would like to use it in conjunction with respiratory rate monitoring to know when to trigger going back for consultation with the cardiac specialist for escalation of treatment as the disease progresses.

Q734 · Aug 31, 2014

This app was used on our girl Nina @the 2012 National. The cardiologist just whipped out his phone, pressed it up against the armpit & in no time it was done.
It's pretty cool.

Veterinary Heart Monitor from AliveCor - any reviews?

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