Re: RC: Need to know about.....

[Lynette Helgeson <helgeson@lansford.ndak.net>]

This has been my experience with them too. At least 20 bpm
higher then 
what a stethoscope shows or what is NORMAL for my horse. This
has been 
happening for several rides and I am getting tired of fighting
ride managers 
over it. I even had a ride manager refuse to use a stethoscope
on my
horse, even though I had requested one. ANd of course the
handheld was way
over and I was doing a competitive ride. A horse, or should I
say pony, that
has had great P/R's all summer, goes on one ride and during the
spot checks
where the hand held is used his P/R's are way up, even though he
was walking
and when I get done with the ride and had worked him harder and
he was hotter,
his P/R's are way down because he was P/R by a vet with a
stethoscope instead
of the hand held monitor. EXplain that, because it just does not
wash with me. 

Tried it on my husband's horse a little later too, 76 on the
hand held and 52 by the vets stethoscope. But on my daughter
horse, it seems to be right on. They seem
to be good on some horse and not others. I know from experience
that they are
always higher then a stethoscope with my pony. And when ride
managers start to
think that hand helds are so accurate that they don't need to
use stethoscopes any more, and using only the hand held is going
to be the rule, then I am going to stop doing distance rides. 

Lynette

DreamWeaver wrote:
> 
> I don't like them, I've had them register 20 bpm higher than my own
> monitor, OR a stethoscope.  I'd rather they not be allowed.  They're also
> subject to interference and besides that, they aren't going to pick up any
> abnormalities that a good P&R person might detect.  It's really irritating
> too, when you know you're horse is down but you've got somebody with one of
> those darn things telling you that your horse is at 80 or some odd number,
> and if you say anything they think your a jerk and you think they are an
> idiot <bg>.
> 
> I've had them put on both of my horses btw, and they've been inaccurate on
> both of them.  That's my only experience with them.
> 
> Happy Trails,
> 
> Karen
> in NV
> & Rocky, 1,745
> & Weaver, 3,005 miles :-)
> 
> At 08:04 PM 09/06/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hand Held Heart Rate Monitors.
> >My opinion of these handy little devices is they are a waste of
> >money and they have no right being part of a P/R on any ride,
> >let alone a competitive ride. They have a tendency to read
> >higher pulses and I have got to wonder if they pick up all of
> >the other little sounds that you hear when you put a stethoscope
> >on a horses sides as part of the heart rate. I am not sure about
> >that, just a guess, but what I am sure about is we had some
> >instances where the hand held registered a heart rate on a horse
> >that said 60 where the pulse taken by stethoscope said 40. And
> >where the hand held registered 76 and the pulse taken by a vet
> >with a stethoscope said the horses pulse was 52 and the pulse
> >taken by hand was a 50. I was also told by other people that all
> >of the BIG rides are going to the hand held heart rate monitors
> >at their rides.
> >
> >So I wanted to know from everyone, first of all what your
> >experiences have been with the hand held heart rate transmitters
> >and if the ride managers are all using them now, and if they
> >are, what they think of them. Also, I would like to know what
> >the vets think of them. I would really appreciate some input on
> >this issue, since it is getting to be a common practice at the
> >rides in this area, and is making me uneasy about the results.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Lynette in ND
> >
> >
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