title: Smart-watches: a potential challenger to the implantable loop recorder?
abstract: The newest generation of smart-watches offer heart rate monitoring technology via photoplethysmography, a technology shown to demonstrate impressive ability in diagnosing arrhythmias including atrial fibrillation. Combining such technology with the portability, connectivity and other location and activity tracking features smart-watches could represent a powerful new tool in extended non-invasive arrhythmia detection. The technology itself, including potential uses and limitations, is discussed. There is a need for further software development but crucially, further work into clarifying the diagnostic accuracy of such technology.
authors: Cardiology Specialist Registrar, Severn Deanery, UK carpenter.alexander@gmail.com.
authors: Alexander
authors: A
authors: Carpenter
authors: Electrophysiology Fellow, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Bordeaux, France.
authors: Antonio
authors: A
authors: Frontera
mesh_terms: D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D017156:Photoplethysmography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012984:Software
keywords: Atrial fibrillation detection; Photoplethysmography; Smart-watch; Smartwatch