Apple Watch ECG and Heart Rate Sensor detects AFib In Texas Woman


A 75 year old woman named Liz Turner credited her Apple Watch Series 4 for detecting AFib earlier in her diagnosis. When she went working out with her Apple Watch, she saw her heart rate go up unusually high during the workout. Her Apple Watch’s screen read 181 BPM, which is dangerously higher than her normal heart rate at 140 BPM.

Liz Turner describes how she felt during her workout:
“You don’t feel your heart beating right now, do you? No. I felt my heart coming out of my chest and it felt like it was just racing.”
This is true that if your heart rate goes up higher than you normally should, it can spot a problem with your heart health. She used the ECG app on her Apple Watch to detect the abnormal heart rhythms, then she sent an email of the ECG strip to her doctor.

In response, her electrophysiologist, Dr. Praveen Rao said that,
“The next step that we would do is say, ‘OK, why don’t you wear a monitor and capture what that rhythm strip is,’ but because her newer watch already had that feature put in, we were able to get the diagnosis that much faster.”
It’s much faster to have Turner use her Apple Watch as an ECG monitor to further investigate her atrial fibrillation. She doesn’t need to use a separate continuous ECG device as an investigational device. As a result, doctors diagnosed her with atrial fibrillation, and Turner underwent two hours of surgery involving long ablation of her heart. The procedure was successful, and Turner thanked her new Apple Watch Series 4 for spotting this health condition.

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