Just a few days ago, a man in Seattle said his Apple Watch alerted him that his intermittent atrial fibrillation had returned. Now, a woman in North Texas is also now crediting the device for detecting a heart condition.
As reported by NBCDFW, 75-year-old Liz Turner first purchased her Apple Watch because her grandchildren had one. It was during an Apple Watch Workout that she first noticed something was wrong. According to her Watch, Turner’s heart rate was 181 – which is far higher than her normal max heart rate of 140.
Turner then used her Apple’s ECG app to track her heart rhythm and shared the data from her phone with her doctor.
It would have blown out of my chest if I had gone any further,” she said.
Dr. Praveen Rao, electrophysiologist at Baylor Scott & White Hospital, said that the data from Turner’s Apple Watch allowed them to skip wearing a normal heart monitor. In turn, doctors were able to come to a diagnosis much quicker:
Ultimately, Turner was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and underwent a two-hour long ablation procedure that isolated parts of heart, ensuring it stays in normal rhythm. Watch a video of Turner share her story here.
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