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Grasswire2

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13. do you have history of afib?

Sun Feb 16, 2025, 11:12 PM

Feb 16

There is another little device that is very useful.

A small, hand-held monitor that shows, on screen, your tracing as if you were having an EKG, and it tells you the diagnosis.

I have one, and would NOT be without it. Very useful.

I have the green one shown on this page.

https://www.emaycare.com/collections/ekg-monitor

NOte, though. I can read an EKG and most people cannot. But you can watch irregularities on the screen, and it does tell you a diagnosis.

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Yes, and it's great Lulu KC Jan 2025 #11