On the contrary, unless you've been told what it is you're feeling, it can be easily ignored. To your peril.
Sure, once you know what it is - and understand the seriousness - then it's just damned frightening.
Watch could save lives. Bring it on.
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Apple Watch Able to Detect Abnormal Heart Rhythm With 97% Accuracy
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Sure, once you know what it is - and understand the seriousness - then it's just damned frightening.
Watch could save lives. Bring it on.
I'm an Emergency doctor at UCSF and this could be super useful. We regularly get patients coming to the hospital with atrial fibrillation, and while some swear they know exactly when it started several studies have shown that this just isn't all that successful. Current guidelines allow for electrical cardioversion within 24 hours of onset of atrial fibrillation. If the onset is unknown we have to place a patient on long term anticoagulation (expensive and risk of bleeding with trauma) or do an invasive heart ultrasound with anticoagulation for a few days prior to cardioversion. If we were able to look back at app data/ heart rate monitoring this could save patients and the system a lot of money and time! Glad to see my home institution doing such great work.
Thanks for the info. Yes, when I had my A-fib episode, it was an accelerated heartbeat. I actually walked into ER after going to a clinic where they did an electrocardiogram and told me I need to go right away. I was somewhat shocked when they immediately started IV's and had the 'Red Cart' next to me. I had, outside of the accelerated heartbeat, no other symptoms such as chest pain, dizziness or shortness of breath.
As some people have had their pick at sarcasm on this thread, they do not realize that there are over 2 million people that suffer from A-Fib. I had no medical coverage and had found a clinic that would refill my high blood pressure medication and that's when my heart rate of 153 was discovered. I could have very easily suffered a stoke or heart attack.
Impressive. And yet it cannot keep track of my HR in the gym...can't win them all....only about off by 100 at times....
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Completely agree. With very little movement, my AW is very accurate, once I do weights in the gym, useless
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Completely agree. With very little movement, my AW is very accurate, once I do weights in the gym, useless
Looks good, and I want to use this. Shame the app doesn't get past the "Creating account..." screen 
97% would be awesome if I could get that when running. 50% is generous for me.
Running at a 6:30 pace for 2 miles, and REALLY pushing myself? Doubt my HR is 64.
Apple Watch is garbage for heart rate. I don't even wear it running anymore.
Running at a 6:30 pace for 2 miles, and REALLY pushing myself? Doubt my HR is 64.
Apple Watch is garbage for heart rate. I don't even wear it running anymore.
Great - yet another gadget to spark anxiety and paranoia in people. I bet this is sponsored by the big medical companies to get the sheeple lining up, even more in front of the the pharmacies...
To anyone buying this app - unless your doctor advised you to - you are in it for a LONG and severe ride of extreme Paranoia...
You have been warned !
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Or a good diet along with 2 hours daily exercise as in walking.
To anyone buying this app - unless your doctor advised you to - you are in it for a LONG and severe ride of extreme Paranoia...
You have been warned !
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Or a good diet along with 2 hours daily exercise as in walking.
(Cardiogram co-founder here)
The Cardiogram app itself is already on the app store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cardiogram/id1000017994?ls=1&mt=8) and the deep learning to screen for conditions are coming sooner than you might think.
Can the app as it exists now reliably indicate an abnormality--or will that require the update you mention?
That's a trenchant and amusing observation that's unfortunately false. 90% of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation episodes are asymptomatic. And even when there are no symptoms, they increase the risk of stroke. In the Framingham study, stroke was the first symptom of atrial fibrillation in 24% of patients with atrial fibrillation.
As i said in my post, I experienced this first hand. I felt no discomfit or symptoms as I laid in the ER bed with several people working on me. It was almost surreal looking at the red cart next to me. I felt good enough to go home as they were pumping drugs into me to bring down my heart rate so I wouldn't have a stroke or heart attack.
Any device or app that assists me in controlling my health is gladly welcomed.
AND I am not suffering from anxiety and paranoia, Just taking care of my health. To me, when you don't do that would be the time to suffer.
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Prior to my watch, I used a certified Finger Pulse Oximeter, similar to the one my doctors used. My watch always matched the finding on the device.
I think the Apple Watch will ultimately be leading this way. Being how Apple is focused on health advancements and health kit, these advancements are coming in due time.
I find this suspect. I have found the heartbeat monitor on the apple watch to be extremely inaccurate - with up to 133% swings in my heart rate shown within a minute, yet other monitors show no such swings, and do not show any abnormal heart rhythm. It was even bad enough to send back to apple at one point but they said "working as designed"
Please, let researchers/cardiologists at University California San Francisco Medical Center know that they're wasting their time developing this pointless technology. Stat!
Also, see post #27 up above.
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What health advancements are you talking about? Can you explain? i am curious to know
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Apple watch is the best looking smartwatch ever made. I recently got my 42 MM series 2 stainless steel model( my first apple watch
Damn!!! How i missed this threadwatch hater without knowing much about it
That's not what you stated here about the Apple Watch. It appears your intentionally stating things for the sake of disparaging against Cook and Apple.
Edit: @Sunny1990. And you edited your message above to something completely unrelated. Could you please explain why?
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OK but will you answer my question? i really want some knowledge about what health advancements is apple working on? i am curious to know!
. i am going to invest more in Apple watch in near future, and if you throw some good knowledge about what improvements you think apple is bringing in future watches! That will be really helpful!
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Siri: "Perhaps you might buy a few iPads while I call the ambulance, say this Watch band is looking pretty, um, non Hermes if you get my drift"
Me: "what?"
Siri: "buy the large Designed by Apple book, or die"
I wonder if they can improve the HR readings by putting it into a band instead of the back of AW.
A band would have a bigger area in direct contact with the skin.
Anyway my AW is not very precise while reading my HR while working out, it needs some improvement
A band would have a bigger area in direct contact with the skin.
Anyway my AW is not very precise while reading my HR while working out, it needs some improvement