There are endless stories about Apple Watches saving their owners’ lives. It must be said that the connected watch is a survival kit in itself. It is its multiple sensors that make it possible to detect an abnormality in the user’s body, in the absence of an emergency call function that allows you to contact emergency services to get rid of the problem. Apple Watch has already made it possible to diagnose a rare heart disease in a 25-year-old young man, and today it repeated this success.
This time, it was a 67-year-old American woman named Kim who would have pointed the gun to the left had it not been for her strapped watch. Last May the latter purchased his Apple Watch, which was particularly frustrating in the early days. In fact, she wakes him up several times in the middle of the night to alert him to his irregular heartbeats. Disbelieving at first, Kim eventually decides to go to the emergency room to check if everything is okay. “On the third night the numbers were a little too high for comfort.”he is telling.
Apple Watch helps diagnose extremely serious tumor
Kim now knows this was the best decision of her life. Indeed, it didn’t take long for doctors to find traces of myxoma, a tumor that is as rare as it is serious. As a matter of fact, if there was no intervention, the blood flow to the heart would be cut off and cause a serious heart attack within a few days. But Kim’s only symptom was an irregular heartbeat.
In other words, if he didn’t have an Apple Watch, he probably would never have found out about his condition. On June 27, surgeons removed the 4-centimeter tumor. “I consider myself very lucky to be here and talking to you.”, says Kim. After 11 days of recovery in the hospital, Kim is currently resting and is likely keeping her smartwatch on her wrist.
Source : CBS News
