http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/ Engadget Comments for EPI Life phone sports ECG function, can let doctors know if you're not gonna make it http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/Jun 16th 2010 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/
To take a good old j!zzin?
(I hate stooping to these levels but come on man.)

Anyway, what will happen if the monthly fee is not paid and a subscriber is coding?]]>Jun 16th 2010 11:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/Jun 17th 2010 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/Jun 16th 2010 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/
what'll be cooler is to apply it to existing smartphones via say the microphone jack]]>Jun 16th 2010 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/I hope a medical professional will read this and can back me up on this... but I believe that this thing is useless. Even in the more extensive source links it seems like they want to make the consumer believe that you can make your own ECG by simply putting your finger to some sensors.
The way I've learned how a ECG works this is simply not possible and will never give you a reliable result. This is a rip-off device!]]>Jun 17th 2010 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/
It's pretty cool, but I actually don't know how practical it is. You might get lead II if they are reading the signal from one hand to the next... but diagnosing anything using a one lead EKG is questionable at best. ]]>Jun 17th 2010 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/
Don't know if you messed up your leads in your post (looks like you might have) but using both hands will only give you a lead I tracing. As Lead II is more like right arm/left leg.

My guess without digging into their website is that this is mainly meant to be like a holter monitor or event recorder that does sporadic monitoring of rate/rhythm and really isn't meant for anything other than to say things like 'you appear to be entering vtach, you may want to go to the hospital now' -- Come to think of it transtelephonic pacemaker monitors have little elastic watchbands that attach to each wrist (e.g. instromedix carryall).]]>Jun 17th 2010 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/
We were thinking the same thing, so we actually looked at the device, and went through the medical literature to see how useful it could potentially be for real life cardiovascular pathologies:

http://www.imedicalapps.com/2010/06/epi-life-ecg-mobile-health-phone-heart-attac/]]>Jun 17th 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/Jun 16th 2010 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/Jun 16th 2010 11:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/Jun 16th 2010 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/look at it this way, while you're bleeding out you can scope your glucose levels real quick.]]>Jun 17th 2010 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/Jun 17th 2010 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/16/epi-life-phone-sports-ecg-function-can-let-doctors-know-if-you/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holter_monitor

The phone isn't going to save your life. If you think you're having a heart attack, call an ambulance. You really don't want to rely on 'oh.. I'm not feeling well'.. pressing some button... data arriving in someone's inbox.. then evaluated and THEN sending an ambulance.

No need to delay an ambulance with an intermediate step.

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