Saint Francis, a apple watch has been reported to have been credited with detecting undiagnosed heart block in a woman
a woman named elain thompson suffered seizures in 2018 and as part of her post-diagnosis treatment, her daughter suggested that she use a Apple Clock to monitor your health, reports appleinsider. thompson You recently received an alert from your Apple Watch that your heart rhythm was unusual.
After that, she went to the cardiologist and was placed on a heart monitor for a week. In one case, the monitor alerted the hospital after her heart stopped for 19 seconds while she slept.
Doctors diagnosed Thompson with heart block and installed a pacemaker to help with his condition, according to the report. “It saved my life. If I hadn’t had the alert, I wouldn’t have brought it up with the doctor. Now I wear my Apple Watch all the time,” Thompson said.
“It was so scary knowing that I could have died. I stopped for 19 seconds. I may not have woken up,” he added. Meanwhile, in October of last year, the Apple Watch helped detect a rare cancer in a 12-year-old girl.
