A 74-year-old man from Lake Worth in Palm Beach County, Fla., credits Apple Watch with saving his life after the device alerted him to an atrial fibrillation event during a trip to Baltimore. Roy Robinson told ABC News affiliate WPBF that he was on a trip to visit family when a notification reading, “You’re in […]
A student was saved by his smart watch after it alerted him to a deadly heart condition – that he had been unaware of since birth. Jorge Cox, 22, had five hours of open heart surgery in May 2019, at the private Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle, Manchester, after alerting medics to worrying heart rate readings […]
“A man’s life may have been saved by taking an Apple Watch ECG just days after the feature launched in Europe,” Sean Keach reports for The Sun. “An Apple Watch owner was reportedly able to detect signs of Atrial Fibrillation – a heart illness that can cause deadly strokes – using the gadget.” “Dr Michael […]
The ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4, a direct-to-consumer product that enables customers to take an electrocardiogram right from their wrist, is available in Hong Kong and 19 European countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. In addition to receiving de Novo clearance in the US from the FDA, the ECG […]
