Atrial fibrillation

[ufgatorvet]

Just a story: my mom is 91 years old and was awakened this morning at 3:54 am with an atrial fibrillation alert from her AW. She called me and I immediately got her to the hospital, diagnosis accurate, admitted to the ICU and started on heart therapy, blood thinners, etc.

Being notified of this event alone was worth way more than the cost of this watch.

I love this thing even more now. ?

 

[mavis]

Wow. I hope she responds well to the treatment. Thanks for sharing the story!

 

[Pug72]

I tested the ECG on my dad a couple of years ago and it showed AF. Didn't want to panic him so as he was going in for hip replacement very soon I so told him to mention it to them if they didn't pick it up. They picked it up straight away. He's now on medication for it.

 

[Drowssap]

Great stories, wow 91, hope she responds to the prescribed treatments so that she can join you for the holidays.

 

[ufgatorvet]

Great stories, wow 91, hope she responds to the prescribed treatments so that she can join you for the holidays.

Thank you for that.

Getting discharged today doing much better. May be a little dramatic to say that the AW saved her life, but that’s how she feels this morning.

At 91 she has really taken to the AW. She likes trying to close her rings but obviously I have to dial the goals waaay back for her to see any movement. She hasn’t discovered the monthly activity challenge yet, but it won’t be long before she’s asking me about it. ?

 

[chanerz]

Awesome story. Glad she's okay.

 

[YaShiMo]

Glad she’s okay. Praying for a speedy recovery.

 

[Saturn007]

Glad to hear the uplifting story. Hope she's doing well.

Questions:

Which Watch was it?

Was the diagnosis via the Watch's regular heartbeat sensor or the Watch's ECG?

 

[fb1909]

Glad to hear the uplifting story. Hope she's doing well.

Questions:

Which Watch was it?

Was the diagnosis via the Watch's regular heartbeat sensor or the Watch's ECG?

As the TO said she was awakened by the alert I would guess it was the optical sensor. Or she has the ability to take an ecg while sleeping ?

 

[ufgatorvet]

Glad to hear the uplifting story. Hope she's doing well.

Questions:

Which Watch was it?

Was the diagnosis via the Watch's regular heartbeat sensor or the Watch's ECG?

She has the SE so no ECG app. Notified by the heart rate sensor.

The ER doctor said it was the third person this week that the AW diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and caused them to come to the hospital! Cool stuff.

 

[Saturn007]

As the TO said she was awakened by the alert I would guess it was the optical sensor. Or she has the ability to take an ecg while sleeping ?

LOL! Right, you are! I had thought the optical sensor only reported "Irregular heartbeat". Figured I was wrong about that or that she had been awakened by an alert, and then taken an ECG.

So, what's the false positive rate for aFib on the optical sensor?

What's the accuracy rate? An early report from several years back was reporting that the optical sensor was detecting only 43% of aFIB cases, while the ECG was in the 90s. Still leaves lots of room for error, but that was a while back, AW 4 days, IIRC.

OP, thanks for confirming what happened and which Watch it was!