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Heart Attack – Apple Watch

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“The Apple iWatch can be a very important tool in the diagnosis and detection of a heart attack. How did we diagnose heart attacks in the old days? Well, we would use an electrocardiogram or an EKG. The issue with that is you would need to be in an office or in a setting where one of these is available. With the iWatch, now that you have access to an EKG at finger’s grip, you can detect your own heart rhythm and determine if you’re having a heart attack. If you have symptoms concerning for a heart attack, such as chest pain, or you’re feeling dizzy, nauseous, lightheaded, check your EKG on the iWatch. If it’s abnormal, take a screenshot of it and send it to your cardiologist. If it’s concerning for a heart attack, you’ll be able to detect it much sooner than if you came to the emergency room and had to wait or call an ambulance.

This is one of the ways technology can improve lives and detect disease much sooner. A heart attack, which in layman’s term is a blockage of an artery, has a specific characteristic on an EKG. If you are trained to know what this looks like, while you’re wearing your iWatch, you know what to look for, and you’ll be able to get help much sooner. It is recommended if you are a high-risk patient for having a heart attack to obtain one of these iWatches so that you can monitor your symptoms to determine if it’s a heart attack or something else that would be a false positive that would otherwise direct you to the emergency room when you would need to go. I recommend high-risk patients having some sort of device that can monitor their EKG.”

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