WHAT IS AN ECG?
If you have ever thought about your heart’s health, you probably stumbled upon an ECG monitor and maybe wondered how ECG testing or monitoring works. ECG is the abbreviation of the word electrocardiogram, an examination that tracks the electrical activity of your heart and records it on a moving sheet of paper or shows it as a moving line on a screen.
ECG is the simplest, most widespread and cost-effective method of analysing the heart and detecting irregularities that could lead to serious health problems such as a stroke or heart attack.
Looking at an electrocardiogram, a doctor can discern clinically relevant information about the health and activity level of the heart muscle, much more than you can know from your only heartbeat detected by most wearable devices.
For patients, D-Heart can be tax-deductible
As a Class IIA medical device, D-Heart is tax-deductible in Italy at 19% (730 or Unico) upon presentation of an invoice, complete with tax code.
HOW DOES AN ECG DEVICE WORK?
To get an ECG track, you need to use an ECG device. As electrical signals move through the heart, the ECG monitor records the amplitude, morphology and succession of these signals. ECGs are the best examination for the diagnosis of arrhythmias and many heart abnormalities and can also be used to diagnose acute or past cardiac ischemias. D-Heart has designed the world’s first ECG device that is as reliable as hospital ECGs and can be used anywhere and by anyone, even without any medical knowledge. It works with your smartphone via a Bluetooth connection and can be employed whenever you want to control the health of your heart.
Since traditional ECG devices and Holter monitors require intrusive skin application by a healthcare professional, these cannot be used by people without medical experience.
WHY CAN D-HEART BE IMPORTANT FOR ME?
PREVENTION
The best way to prevent a heart problem is to check your heart regularly with reliable tests. The risk of a heart attack usually increases with age or by familial predisposition. It is therefore important to monitor your heart with regular check ups. In this way, you can detect the first changes in the ECG and ask quickly for help. By doing so, you can even prevent heart damage. In addition, the more healthy the heart muscle is, the more effective the prevention of cardiovascular disease will be. Frequent movement and exercises train and strengthen the heart. D-Heart is the perfect companion to perform a heart check up before and after training.
DIAGNOSIS
Do you have regular chest pain or discomfort due to palpitations? Has your doctor not been able to give you a definitive diagnosis? The reason for this lies in the fact that the moment the in which the symptoms occur does not match with when you go to your doctor in his surgery. It is very difficult for your doctor to make a diagnosis when symptoms are no longer present. Your doctor can best determine the cause of your symptoms by registering a reliable ECG when symptoms arise.
Monitoring
If you have already received treatment for your heart problem and want to monitor your condition, D-Heart is the best solution for you. Cardiologists recommend using ECG monitors for Smartphones to control the patient after specific cardiac treatments, such as ablation of atrial fibrillation. If the symptoms recur, it can often be that the treatment has not been completely successful. In these situations it would be advisable to register an ECG when your symptoms occur so that you can show it to your doctor and thus identify the best treatment. Remember that only with a multiple-lead ECG such as D-Heart (8 leads) complex arrhythmias can be recognised and even localised. Your cardiologist will always be just a click away!