thanks to Apple Watch. Posting not to tout Apple, but to let some folks know of some useful features.
If you have your watch on and your heart rate drops below a certain level, say 40 bpm, and you can set it, it will send you a notification. Mine did, and when I went to see doc it was high, so he blew me off. After several episodes, I started recording the ecg during these episodes, and the traces are saved to the phone. When the rate is very low or irregular the watch will announce that it is a poor quality recording and it doesn’t know what it is, afib or sinus rhythm, but it will save it anyway. Well you can look at the recording and draw some conclusions yourself. I did and after a couple that were pretty weird, decided I’d better go to the er, where several people looked at the recording and said ‘ohh”. They wanted to see it on their equipment, and eventually it went into “wonky” mode and to make a long story short I came home 3 days later with a pacemaker. Nearly complete conduction block. If it hadn’t been for the recording feature they might have sent me home because rate had bounced back by the time I got there. Symptomatically all I had was a little shortness of breath. Complete conduction block and I guess it is curtains.
i got the watch because of the fall detection feature, which also works. It also tells the time and answers calls, but this was a feature I hadn’t considered.
If you have your watch on and your heart rate drops below a certain level, say 40 bpm, and you can set it, it will send you a notification. Mine did, and when I went to see doc it was high, so he blew me off. After several episodes, I started recording the ecg during these episodes, and the traces are saved to the phone. When the rate is very low or irregular the watch will announce that it is a poor quality recording and it doesn’t know what it is, afib or sinus rhythm, but it will save it anyway. Well you can look at the recording and draw some conclusions yourself. I did and after a couple that were pretty weird, decided I’d better go to the er, where several people looked at the recording and said ‘ohh”. They wanted to see it on their equipment, and eventually it went into “wonky” mode and to make a long story short I came home 3 days later with a pacemaker. Nearly complete conduction block. If it hadn’t been for the recording feature they might have sent me home because rate had bounced back by the time I got there. Symptomatically all I had was a little shortness of breath. Complete conduction block and I guess it is curtains.
i got the watch because of the fall detection feature, which also works. It also tells the time and answers calls, but this was a feature I hadn’t considered.
