{"doi":"10.1136/vr.105759","title":"Comparison between smartphone electrocardiography and standard three‐lead base apex electrocardiography in healthy horses","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Cardiac arrhythmias are commonly auscultated during routine physical examinations in horses and determining the underlying electrical abnormality using an ECG is important. The most commonly used device is a three-lead base apex system (Televet), however few practitioners carry this for routine visits. With recognition of the utility of smartphone-based ECGs in humans, dogs and ruminants, the AliveCor single-lead bipolar smartphone-based ECG has gained popularity. The objective of this study was to determine if AliveCor and Televet ECG measurements were comparable in healthy horses using multiple observers. METHODS: ECGs were performed on 15 healthy horses simultaneously using the AliveCor and Televet. RESULTS: There was very good to perfect interdevice and interobserver agreement for heart rate and RR interval measurement, and moderate-to-good interdevice and interobserver agreement for detection of non-pathological arrhythmias. Interdevice agreement for measurement of P-wave and QRS duration, QT, PR and T-peak to T-end interval was poor to fair. Interestingly, interobserver agreement for P-wave and QRS duration, QT, PR, and T-peak to T-end interval measurements was fair to good. CONCLUSION: Overall, the AliveCor is comparable to the Televet for heart rate and RR measurement, and for the detection of non-pathogenic arrhythmias with acceptable agreement between observers.","journal":"Veterinary Record","year":2020,"id":70973,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":18,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9582,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":375675,"name":"Sian A. Durward-Akhurst","orcid":"0000-0003-3034-1554","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":375676,"name":"Elaine M. Norton","orcid":"0000-0001-9450-2893","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":377404,"name":"Lacey R. Ellingson","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":375677,"name":"Aaron Rendahl","orcid":"0000-0001-5434-3592","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":375678,"name":"Molly E. McCue","orcid":"0000-0002-6807-0318","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":375674,"name":"Brittany Welch‐Huston","orcid":"0000-0002-0602-9029","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":22,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T21:43:57.004133Z","pmid":"32414909","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}