How can I be screened for Atrial Fibrillation

The most common way of screening for atrial fibrillation is to do a 12 lead ECG. This is a recording of the heart. It requires you to engage with a medical professional. ECG electrodes are placed on your chest and on your arms and we produce 12 separate leads which produce a picture of the electrical activity of your heart. If you like, each one of these leads is a little camera that looks into the heart and looks at the electrical activity of the heart. However, nowadays we can now begin to assess the heart rhythm using even single lead ECGs or three lead ECGs. But in the advent of wearable technologies, it is now actually quite effective to obtain good ECG tracings from a smartwatch. and this can give us the diagnosis for atrial fibrillation.