EKGraph DocPro® Portable ECG Heart Rate Monitor - Easy to Use with Instant On-Screen Results - Works with Free App or Standalone - Perfect for Home Health Monitoring, Fitness Tracking & Cardiac Care

How can one feel speechless when writing a review? I'll push past that feeling and tell you all about it. First, this device WILL record your rhythm for at least 10 seconds and was accurate at identifying an arrhythmia. However, accessing, documenting, and sharing that information is worthless because of the software. It's beyond a mess. I'm including Nightmare Instructions below, but first, here's one important thing to know.The identification of the leads is different in the app vs the online user manual. Hand-Ankle: Online User Manual = Lead II, App = Lead IVHand-to-Chest: Online user manual is Lead V, in App = Lead IIIWrist-to-Hand: Online user manual Lead I, in App = Lead II TAKING A READING AND SYNCHRONIZING1. Follow the instructions to take a reading.2. If you want it to record for 30 seconds instead of 10, the app gives you that option, but even though you save it, it will still record for only 10 seconds. You have to load Sonohealth's computer program to your computer and make the change there. (More on that later.)3. Turn off the device. You can't sync with your phone unless the device is turned off first.4. Open the app on your phone. Go to the screen with the readings. Click "Synchronize" and then IMMEDIATE turn on the device again. If you don't do it just like that, they won't connect. It might take several tries to figure out the perfect timing.5. If you have taken a lot of readings, then go make a cup of coffee because it syncs every reading on the device, not just the ones since you last synced.6. After syncing, on your phone, click the tab "Latest" and scroll through readings to find the actual latest because it may not be at the top or bottom of the screen. If you go to the tab for Normal readings, don't be surprised to see all the abnormal ones, too.7. If you did hand-to-hand (Lead I), your reading will be inverted. You can click the red circle to un-invert it (not that it makes any difference - more on that later).6. Click "Note". Select the Recording Method. Click Save. Click Add Note. Type in anything you want to document. Click Save.PRINT FROM THE APP1. Click "Share" to print. Ignore where it refers to the device as a Pulse Oximeter. Click Print.2. The printout will have no indication of which Lead you used and the note you added will be missing. If you did Lead I, be aware that it will show your reading as inverted (despite un-inverting it in the app). Make sure you handwrite all that down on the printout if you are going to take it to your doctor. You will need to contact support if you made any recording other than hand-to-hand to figure out which Lead it really was. EMAIL FROM THE APP:1. Don't bother. Your doctor will get exactly what you got with your printout, and it will report your Beats per Minute (BPM) as "%1$." It's going to be way more helpful if you just print it out, write out your notes, and hand deliver it.USING THE PROGRAM ON YOUR COMPUTERRemember, if you want to record for longer than 10 seconds, you can only change that setting on the computer even though it gives you a place to do it in the app. It just doesn't work in the app.1. Go to the Sonohealth website and look all over for where they have the download for your computer. (Hint: You have to go to the Online User Manual and scroll through it until you find the link to download it. Download it to your computer.)2. Open the software if you can find where it got downloaded because its default download location isn't Programs, like all other downloads. If you are on a PC and used the default download settings, go to C: and look for a folder called "PM10." Open it and in the list of files, click on the one that has a heart icon, called "PM10." Why is this called PM10?3. Connect your device to your computer with the cord provided. Make sure your device is on. (If at any time you get a pop-up message on your computer that your device has malfunctioned, it's only because it turned itself off. Turn on the device again and hope you can get your downloads done before it happens again.)4. In the "Downloaded" tab, click on "Download All". After you download your readings, they will be deleted from your device, so you better hope it works the first time. There is no way to download from your phone other than emailing each reading one by one.5. After it is downloaded (at least your first download), you click on the Manage tab. 5. You will notice that if you recorded for 30 seconds, you will only get a report of 10 seconds! of it. Select the reading you want, and click Review to see the report.6. Before you print it, in the little box that says Diagnosis, be sure to type out which Lead it was (if you can figure that out from the conflicting information provided) and any notes you typed into the app because those aren't included in the download. Oh, and your reading will be inverted if you did Lead I (it doesn't matter if you "fixed" it in the App). Then Print.7. The printout from the program on your computer will look very different from the one from your app. I'm not a doctor and I'm not sure which one is better for the doctor to read, so you should probably print from both the app and the computer, write all the notes on both versions, and bring both versions with you to your doctor. 8. AS A NOTE: You can't leave your computer open while you do another reading and try to download that reading. If you do, it will give you a message that there is No Data. (At least, this is what happened to me.) If this happens to you, close the program, then go hunt for it and open it again. You should see your download listed after you do all that. Well, I think you can. That's what it did for me a couple of times. As I've been creating these instructions, I have kept taking readings and doing all of the above, but now I keep getting the No Data message. It's too exhausting to continue to try to debug. I'm sending this back for a refund. As you can see, there is WAY too much to fix here.I got this to save money on ER bills! They always tell you if you even THINK you are having a heart attack, go to the ER! Who can afford that? And what insurance company can afford that?I looked at this and the competitor that has been out for a while, and went with this SonoHealth EKGraph Portable Heart Rate Monitor | Wireless Handheld Home ECG Cardio & Electrocardiogram Machine | Biofeedback Finger & Chest Leads View Irregular Cardiac Arrhythmia Vitals on a Mobile Phone because it said it was created in the Upstate of South Carolina and that is where I live. I wanted to help a local person out.So far it has worked out well. Now when I think that I am having a heart attack, I don't pop an aspirin and pray, I pull this out and see if it is concerned or not. If it isn't, then I relax and go about my day.The only worry is that if this was giving false negatives it would be bad. But I am counting on them to be able to AT LEAST detect a serious heart attack. I tend to use the hand to hand method, but my dad got a horrible reading and we realized it was his callouses and when he used another method he got an all clear reading.I have had one experience where I had a bad test and my hands appeared to be too dry. Switching to a NIPPLE test (two inches below the nipple) gave me an all-clear.I am PRETTY CONFIDENT in this but not sure how to definitely know. I ran this by my doctor and he likes it. He thinks they can probably catch most major events so you would go get help.For the price, it is a no brainer. Way less expensive than going to the ER everytime I have gas or heartburn and way better than taking aspirin and being anxious and praying every time.I would recommend getting one of these gadgets if you are over 50 or have a lot of false heart attacks or just want peace of mind.This heart rate monitor is simple and easy to use. It seems to read the heart rate well and shows it on the screen. I love that there is no subscription for this product. But the app is difficult to use. For instance if you have more than three recordings to upload the app shuts down on the third one. Yes it closes completely. You have to restart the app to load more. Also, some of my recordings didn’t load at all. Finding how to upload is not intuitive. You have to click on the latest upload to get to the screen where you can upload more. Settings are wonky too. There are just two aspects that you can set- duration of recording and sound of the beat or not. I can’t get 30 seconds and sound to happen at the same time. Its either one or the other. Also, the app and directions say hold down the “on” button for 3 seconds. Mine won’t turn on unless I hold at least ten seconds. I thought it was defective at first. One more problem- if you record more than 3 episodes before uploading them, the app loses ALL of them. It acts as if it is uploading but they don’t show on the list. This is a real problem. So I suggest that the company invest in better software or my guess is, they will lose customers.Love it all the way around except for one item - you must maintain your index (pointer) finger on the monitor while you place it against your pulse point. That will be difficult to use if the person has passed out to check their heart rate. Thank you.