Kimmie Watkins can thank her connected watch. This young woman from Cincinnati was saved by her Apple Watch, which alerted her to an excessively high heart rate during a nap. The watch has an optical heart rate monitor that allows you to read the number of beats per minute.
The heart rate of an athlete during exercise.
As explained by the American outlet Local12, Kimmie Watkins had decided to take a nap after feeling tired and dizzy. Without really caring about this state that seemed fleeting to her, she decided to get some sleep and that’s when her watch rang.
A rate of 178 beats per minute to be precise; that is, the heart rate of an athlete in full effort.
Therefore, he decides to quickly consult a doctor who diagnoses him with a pulmonary embolism, that is, the obstruction of a pulmonary artery by a blood clot, which caused this spike. The risk of dying was very high, stresses Richard Becker, a cardiologist at the University of Cincinnati.
And it is thanks to this alert that the doctors discovered that she suffered from a bleeding disorder, which she did not know existed.
This is not the first time that Apple products have “saved” lives. The latest iPhone, which offers the ability to contact emergency services by sending a signal via satellite in the event of a network failure, has made it possible to locate several people since its introduction in the fall.
Source: BFM TV
