The apple watch as a lifeguard

Beyond allowing us to observe notifications, respond to messages or pay for purchases in stores, Apple Watch is defining itself as a constant vigilant of our health that, in extreme cases, can save the lives of its carriers. This is the case of u / ClockworkWXVII , a Reddit user who has related his experience.

"My Apple Watch just saved my life"

It is not the first time, and hopefully not the last, that the Apple Watch helps in the early detection of certain cardiac abnormalities, thus helping to improve the health of users. However, a new case continues to draw our attention.

Recently, the Reddit user u / ClockworkWXVII published a post titled "My Apple Watch just saved my life". In it he relates how the apple clock showed a notification reporting the irregular heartbeat along with a high heart rate alert.

After receiving this alert, the user narrates that he called the emergency services and, at the moment when they reached him, “he went into shock.” Before receiving alerts from his Apple Watch, he says, he had felt "totally fine."

I called the emergency service, when they arrived, they found me in serious trouble. My body went into shock, I was taken to the hospital on a stretcher. I was feeling totally fine before everything happened, and after the notifications, everything goes crazy.

When I was picked up by paramedics, I was suffering from tachycardia, they gave me an IV and they gave me oxygen, and they put EAD pads on my torso. I woke up in a hospital bed

At the hospital, doctors performed an ECG (electrocardiogram). With this they observed that his heart was beating at an abnormally fast rate, thus corroborating the high heart rate alert that had previously been issued by the patient's Apple Watch.

Doctors diagnosed the user as having supraventricular tachycardia, which is characterized by a faster than normal heart rate that develops when the heart's normal impulses are interrupted.

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