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Post by aaplsauce on Feb 10, 2022 22:27:24 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Feb 11, 2022 5:22:16 GMT -8
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Post by CdnPhoto on Feb 11, 2022 7:27:45 GMT -8
I forwarded the above article to a friend of mine.
She replied that her partner wears the watch to bed and was notified of a low heart rate. He's checking with his Dr now. That makes the third person I know of directly that has had the watch notify them. One was a 20 year old daughter of a friend who ended up being rushed to the Emergency Department. I'm not sure if they called a "Code Blue", or were on the verge of calling it. Her cardiologist asked if the Apple Watch she had included the ECG. It didn't, it was the SE.
Apple Watch: Saves lives, and tells time.
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JDSoCal
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Post by JDSoCal on Feb 11, 2022 7:41:52 GMT -8
I forwarded the above article to a friend of mine. She replied that her partner wears the watch to bed and was notified of a low heart rate. He's checking with his Dr now. That makes the third person I know of directly that has had the watch notify them. One was a 20 year old daughter of a friend who ended up being rushed to the Emergency Department. I'm not sure if they called a "Code Blue", or were on the verge of calling it. Her cardiologist asked if the Apple Watch she had included the ECG. It didn't, it was the SE. Apple Watch: Saves lives, and tells time. Yeah they wouldn't call a "code blue" if he was already in the ER. That's for roving emergency teams throughout the hospital if someone "codes" in other areas besides the ER and ICU's. I worked in a level 1 trauma center in another life. The things you see... The thing about weird heartbeats is they can be so intermittent that they require constant monitoring. My mother has atrial fibrillation, but that was only discovered because she was already in the hospital and being monitored (telemetry) for another condition for like a week. Afib is when the atrium kind of spasms instead of expanding and contracting. Blood tends to pool in the atrium and can clot and then you can stroke out. It's something you typically don't notice until it's too late. You can live with it for years and not know it, and it increases your stroke risk by a significant margin. This is where Apple Watch can really come in handy, the one-time discovery of a chronic condition. I sure hope they can expand the monitoring to other conditions, and of course real time monitoring by one's doctors. Maybe the doctor gets an alert, "Patient Jane Doe in vtach!" Assuming he does not have alerts muted while on the golf course.
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Post by mark on Feb 11, 2022 12:00:48 GMT -8
A few weeks ago, my watch told me that my "heartrate is high but sensing no activity". It sensed that I wasn't moving around, yet my heartrate was >120. It was because I was in the sauna. Usually my resting heartrate is much lower - in the 50s or 60s.
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