“Needless to say I called my doctor and was told to get to the emergency room immediately” — Apple’s cheapest Watch just saved another life
By Stephen Warwick
- You don’t need the best to stay safe.
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Apple’s cheapest wearable has just been credited with saving another life, proving you don’t have to buy the best Apple Watch on the market to benefit from life-saving tech yet again.
User V3N0M0US83 took to the Apple Watch Subreddit this week and revealed “Apple Watch saved my life this past weekend.” “I have an SE 2 and Thursday my watch had gone off saying my heart rate was above 120 bpm,” they explained. The user ignored the alerts “as I didn’t feel any discomfort,” but got two more heart rate alerts while sitting at the kitchen table the following day.
“I opened the heart rate app and my bpm was at 161 while resting.” The user’s girlfriend, a medical assistant in training, gave their heart a listen with a stethoscope “and said my heart was beating out of my chest.” Turns out, they needed life-saving treatment.
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My afib was detected by my apple watch and the cardiologist didn’t believe it. The episode evidently was intermittent. He wired me up with 73 hour monitor. Then next day he called me into the office and started me on a drug regimen.
It was afib.
Even on drugs I get a warning that the “afib is less than 2%”. He says that is ok, but don’t stop the medicine or lose the watch.
So, it doesn’t have to be the best apple watch to get this feature, but it could save your life. Afib causes heart attacks, strokes, and all sorts of other “lesser problems”. It’s a cheap tool. And, I can confirm the efficacy of it.
YMMV but I am a believer.
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