How an Apple Watch ECG Led Me To The Emergency Room
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- I was blown away when Apple showed off the ECG functionality of the Apple Watch 4 and was quick to try it when it was added to the watch late last year. What I didn't know at the time was that I would end up sick and use the Apple Watch ECG function to verify that something was off. I ended up at the hospital in the emergency room where an actual 12 lead EKG confirmed that my heart rhythm was in fact off.
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My father recently died of a heart attacking due to chronic heart disease. I’ve been so paranoid, two weeks after, my aunt offered to sell me her watch having no idea about my paranoia and me having no idea the apple watch would help ease my anxieties. I feel so relieved now.
loool if this ain't me- rip to your father tho
Apple will not show a heart attack. Only AFib which isn't immediately life threatening most of the time.
@@JM-ir8lw It will show irregularities and possibly give you a HEADS UP before an attack happens.
@@JM-ir8lw you can turn your Apple watch into 12 lead to diagnose heart attack
Being a person with afib sometimes you go back to normal before they can catch it. So it's super helpful.
I love the ecg on my Apple Watch best feature of the Apple Watch in my opinion and love how it shows the date as it happens
I went into atrial fibrillation 2 weeks ago on the night after I turned 29 and it was the first time it happened to me. I was administered an IV of fluids like Lopressor which slows the heart rate down and I had and EKG done on me a couple times in the ER and stayed overnight there too and a nurse hooked me up to a portable EKG monitor. I have a series 5 Apple Watch which is extremely helpful for detecting irregular heart rhythms and atrial fibrillation.
My cardiologist told me about the app and suggested I picked the watch up!
he is paid by apple :D
Great video, I’m very happy you’re ok...
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I am also prone to supraventricular tachycardia, so sometimes my heart goes strong. then tried for fun also to use the ecg function a single night and there it also wrote irregular heartbeat recorded, but besides its functions on health it is also generally a nice watch with the other apps too.
Is it just episodes for you? Is it everyday or? Are you on meds for it
I have multifocal PVCs, Bigeminy, Trigeminy, Couplets, R on T Phenomenon and NSVT. It gives me peace of mind when my heart acts up with these, and I can keep an eye on it.
Apple changing the game and ekg features can only get better in the years to come
Ty!! I just had a heart scare last week. All was ok but this is all I thought about. Apple Watch
Thanks for your great video, i was wondering would you allow me to show your testimonial video of apple watch specifically the ECG app for my presentation at college.. thank you.
Sure!
This just happened to me. I’m 18 weeks pregnant and have been feeling my heart race and feeling like I’m going to vomit or black out. My ecg on my Apple Watch was inconclusive and my HR was 120 resting. I went to the Er and was monitored now I’m getting sent home with a three day monitor. They think I may have svt. Thank god for the Apple Watch
I got it too when I was pregnant. Now I have NSVT , PVCs
Thats good to hear keanna
@@jl8805 are you better?
And update?
@@lordfarquaad1701 I still have it. It doesn't go away. But I manage with medications and change of lifestyle
That’s just sinus rhythm with frequent premature supraventricular complexes.. some look like junctional complexes (PJCs) and some look like atrial complexes (PACs) but would need at least another lead to differentiate for sure. You have 1:1 p:QRS conduction, p waves appear unifocal without any abnormalities, PR interval also appears normal and consistent without any AV dissociation which means no evidence of AV blocks.. QRS interval is normal - no RBBB or LBBB or any fascicular blocks (even though you can’t differentiate these with just the lead I).. T wave appears normal in this lead as well - again would need to see inferior, septal, and precordial leads to r/o STEMI. You made no mention of chest pain though so we can assume negative STEMI. R-R intervals appear consistent from what I can see in the video which takes out arrhythmias which ultimately means rhythm would be NSR with premature supraventricular complexes. The blood pressure thing is interesting though.. likely simply explained because you were still dehydrated which can cause the acute orthostatic hypotension related symptoms such as the dizziness or sometimes nausea upon any major movement - especially if you were already laying in bed all day… generally we will see blood pressures drop with arrhythmias that cause poor to little or even no perfusion. These are generally fast arrhythmias such as a fib RVR, AVNRT, AVRT, VTACH, etc. to tell you the truth the ER visit was a waste of your time and money. Which further demonstrates the point you mention about maybe not having a consumer product on the market that has a capability like this where it isn’t always right - hell half of the time that I look at a 12 lead the auto generated interpretation by the machine isn’t always accurate. Someone that isn’t trained even in basic electrophysiology of the heart has no clue what they are even looking at anyways, so again might not be the best idea to put in the hands of consumers. On the contrary, I can see it being a great tool for the people who do have the slightest clue what they are looking at. Say for example you are in public and someone goes unresponsive without a pulse.. you could slap your watch on them and easily see what rhythm they are in - again this is handy only if you know what you are looking at. This is really helpful info to know for example when treating cardiac arrest because there are certain interventions you can do for certain rhythms. If someone has a rapid pulse, feels light headed, potentially short of breath, slap on your watch and see maybe if they are in an SVT. Often times it can be treated with valsalva maneuvers or carotid massage without things such as adenosine or synchronized cardioversion. But for someone that again knows what they are looking at, it could potentially be very helpful in these situations. Thanks for reading my TED talk lol.
Maybe you know the answer to my question: so it doesn’t actually mean you have atrial fibrillation when your Apple Watch detects it? I had two readings of Afib after I started measuring because of poundings and fluttering in my chest. Someone who doesn’t know anything about this, like me, will obviously be stressed out. Good thing there is an ER to go to, even when you go for no reason, right?
Hi, my Apple Watch detected atrial fibrillation, I went to the emergency and the physician with a ECG confirmed it. Without the Apple Watch I wouldn't realized I was having AFib. This is my real story, I am 52 years old and never had heart illnesses.
Thanks for sharing that. People do need to take these things seriously. At the end of the day YOUR TAXES pay for health care at least here in canada they do. So if in doubt, check it out. If you are wrong, so you wasted a few hours of your time and their time but if you were right, you might have saved your life. That to me is a fine line that shouldn't be taken lightly.
Awesome story! Glad you had the resources to help you!
Does Apple Watch detect it without opening the ecg app ?
My watch told me I had Afib twice and both were sinus rhythms
@@damianwojcikiewicz3951 No you have to keep you’re finger on the crown.
for most people a withings bpm is probably more useful to track bp but realistically many people have been saved by the apple watch. set up alets for weird heart rate is a great feature for many.
Thanks for sharing. I have HP and benefit from using the Apple Watch for monitor heart particularly when exercising to make sure I don't over do it. Does the Apple Watch 4 have the ability to monitor blood oxygen level? Seems I keep reading that the watch has the capability of doing so but Apple has not enabled it.
Better safe the sorry! Take care bro!
Great Video technology is changing everything this alone will help people to monitor in real time better information for MD will improve diagnostic will improve outcome.
My Apple Watch showed showed possible Afib about 1yr ago. I could definitely tell something was wrong. My first time, went to ER, was admitted, had Ablation flutter procedure next day. Had problems for the next yr. My Dr always checks my watch each visit, last week had Ablation for Afib and a cardiac loop recorder was implanted. So, who know what the future will be. If not for the watch it may have been too late.
Did your watch says sibus ritm or irregular?. I couldn't understand clearly. Did you manually realize there is something wrong or your watch resalt as irregular
Thanks ☺️
Had afib on my apple watch multiple times with negative side effects but none of them took it seriously or even cared to investigate it. Still trying to find a doctor that will. Keep up the great work.
JimPott2 maybe not bring up the watch? I know it’ll suck but being it up as it runs hardcore into your family?
I had a doctor get confrontational with me about a fitness band. I've never wanted to punch someone so bad in my life. And he was the one asking about blood O2 testing.
@@DVXCine Sorry to hear that. Yeah docs aren't the smartest folks on the block
Realistically, the ECG (EKG is different j/k) did end up saying it went back to normal. Getting fluids is key, a 0.5 deviation on your pH balance can cause a ton of problems. However going to the ER when you did should have happened without the watch as well. If after around 72 hours you can't get out of bed, THAT is enough to warrant a trip to the ER.
Yes true but it was another factor to assist in my decision. I probably would have waited until morning at least if it was not for the ECG. I'm sure I would have been fine regardless.
If u were sick it was prob from not having fluids. Made electrolytes low and that can make ur heart beat funky.
I had the same experience on September 2022, heart attack, atrial fibrillating and just felt dizzy and sweating. Thanks to the Apple Watch I saw I was fibrillating with a 110 pulse went to emergency and stayed 6 days in intensive care . I went thru cardio version and my rhythm is back to normal. Maybe if I wouldn't be wearing the apple watch, the incident passed unnoticed and I could have a stroke. Thanks for your video.
For me I have a very mild heart murmur and the doctors told me not to worry and I don’t.
The EKG you provided in the video shows junctional bigeminy. In between the normal electrical impulses generated by the sinus node there are impulses created by the ”junction” of the heart which is below the sinus node and normally stays silent because it is ”slower” than the sinus node. Many things like electrolyte abnormalities, caffeine intake or anything that causes surge in adrenalin may cause a higher chance of these silent foci to start firing causing a „double pacemaker” in the heart. This may be associated with many uncomfortable symptoms which in turn cause anxiety which further causes increase in adrenalin which makes a self perpetuating loop. Apple watch is very good in detecting things like that but because it only shows one lead it is very poor at looking at the heart from many directions like a 12 lead does
But its better than nothing
@@xlifewritex it depends how you look at it. It has a potential to cause unnecessary anxiety and unnecessary ER visits. ECG is only as good as its interpreter.
What is the difference between ECG and EKG
@@slimchickyman8396 nothing there both the same test just the term ekg is used more in clinical settings or hospitals (I’m an ekg tech) ECG-ElectrocardiogrAm is the English spelling/name EKG-Electrokardiogram is the original German spelling/name for it.
I disagree it just looks like sinus rhythm with a couple of isolated SVEs coming through
If buying an apple watch for a senior person and primarily for the acute health features (such as detecting a fall), is there a good justification to buying the apple watch series 7 over the SE, or are the cardiology features non essential in this respect? I would really appreciate your thoughts on this.
Yes…there is a great deal of functionality that the 7/8 have.
I'm a sucker for data that's why I bought a blood pressure monitor /scale that has as bluetooth to send data to the health app
I need help my Apple Watch series 3 42mm it said now my heart rate is my apple watch says heart rate is 90 bpm my chest hurts I been with pain lately 2 weeks ago which doctor doesn’t see what’s wrong with me
Are you nervous? What started it? Are you nervous about the high heart rate.
The mind can do funny things to the body. If you’re still alive go to the doctor
@@suzyrottencrotch5132 Yes. But if you died, please don't go to the doctor. You will freak him out.
@@trueofknowledgerepublican.6395 dude shut up. Your just labeling everything to do with apple watch as bad.Why are you even here
I have been wearing my fitbit on my wrist every day to save my life after a long battle of my Crome illness as a child
fitbit isn't as accurate
How can I eat ecg? On my Apple Watch series 3 42mm
Dumbass you can’t eat it
@@KennethKidGamingPlus damn😂
Does it monitor 24/7 or just when you press the button?
You have to keep your finger on button.
I had Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome and I can go into Afib anytime due to the physical circuitry in the heart. I went thru the Ablation procedure a couple of years ago but my Cardiologist said that he did not find the problematic circuit during the procedure but so far, I did not have any problems after the procedure. Anyhow I just wanted to tell you all that Afib symptom can happen without any warning so if you think you can test and predict with ECG, you are kidding yourself. In other words, no sensors can help you predict those heart racing conditions. The best prevention is to have medication in hand when you have an episode and go strict to the hospital.
Shouldn't the app have notified you automatically of the irregular heart rhythm, as opposed to you having to go into the app and manually check to confirm?
Don't think the app is allowed to act as a doctor/approved to do that. The watch can't diagnose you just like that.
I believe you need to press against the watch’s crown with the opposite hand for 30 seconds for the test to complete. It can’t do that just sitting on your wrist.
It can detect irregular rhythms but doesn't check constantly, so someone who actually has AFib could just get unlucky and their watch never sees it.
Personally, my heart goes into irregular rhythms very sporadically and my watch has never caught it. I've gotten 4 AFib readings recently, but that's only because I quickly took an ECG before it went back to normal.
3:42 starts
Been there..
how accurate is it tho??
A friend had the same thing happen. It saved his life.
I have sinus arrhythmia, so my heart beats perfectly but in a different rythm all the time. I was told it is because of how I breathe and it can be actually a sign of a very healthy heart. Anyway, strange enough, my heart rythm gets normal when I'm sick and once I'm healthy again it gets back to the sinus arrhythmia 😅
I started to monitor my heart as I have a big hiatus hernia since childhood and a large parte of my stomach is on my chest and it gives some crazy palpitations and flutters sometimes when my stomach is full.
So did you get atrial flutter is is it just sinus arrhythmia
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Dude had corona virus early before it even hit the news…glad you were able to shake it off
LOL! I'm an early adopter of everything.
I don’t think health care professionals are skeptical over the EKG (we call it an EKG, not an ECG - EKG is the original German term). It can honesty be difficult to capture and record arrhythmias and ectopy, even in the hospital. Sometimes when we try to capture the rhythms, the patient will immediately go out of the rhythm. Having the ability to capture heart rhythms at home can definitely be useful, however these do not compare to a professional 12 lead EKG. There’s a lot of small little things that at 12 lead EKG can capture and trained medical professionals (not just physicians) can read.
There’s only so much a 1 lead on a watch can capture! And it can be hard for the average person to decide for what to seek medical attention. Try to utilize urgent cares or walk in clinics with your provider first, unless it’s a medical emergency!
Colby Good advice. I’d definitely suggest people to call their local urgent cares to make sure that an EKG machine is available. I’ve noticed some don’t have one.
We actually call it ECG for English speaking countries because we spell cardiac with a c
both EKG and ECG are in use.
masz wysoki załamek T, sprawdź co on oznacza, sinusoida załamka T, nie może wykraczać poza połowę wielkości zespołu QRS. Proponuje dużo ruchu i zmierz sobie frakcje wyrzutowa serca, byc może to początek niewydolności serca
not intended to treat or cure any diseases and is not a substitute for a doctor's visit.
but at the same time there are people that will use the feature as a substitute.
In my 40th year of life, I had two heart attacks and two stents placed with the same symptoms you describe. I thought I had bronchitis or maybe pneumonia, went to the doctor and was told to go to the ER.
I've turned into a major hypochondriac. It doesn't help that I Afib every once in awhile, but since I got an ECG monitor I've cut down on my number of hospital visits. I visited the ER like 20 times in the last two or three years, but it was a major problem early on. I mean, c'mon I had two heart attacks in the span of a year. Actually, nine months. Those experiences have rattled me.
But, once I got a monitor, not an apple watch, I cannot afford that, my visits to the ER slowed. I've seen what ECG readings are bad news, so I do know what ones I need to get verified and the rest, I just live with and gripe about to my PC or Cardiologist. But, I monitor my BP, O2, ECG, Temp, blood sugar, weight...it's really sad at 42.
Luis Salinas he said he has a monitor NOT an apple watcg
@@trueofknowledgerepublican.6395 Dude there is no proof of that
Great video.
Here’s the spiel - you can’t find technological advancements. Metallica tried to fight Napster and lost.
Same here - more and more information and data is available to consumers and even more will be available as time goes by. With that in mind, doctors need to learn how to cope with it, and potentially partner even further with tech companies to assure the quality of the data is good and accurate.
early CORONA....
Apple Watch detect one time AFIB on me…should i be worrying? I just went bed and sleep. Now I thought about it, i might be die in the sleep.
It has false triggered on me before as well. My Dr. told me that this happens often.
Dude had corona in 2018
🤣🤣🤣 Probably!
StateofTech haha! Well glad your ER visit wasn’t anything serious, new sub!
Im and ER nurse, so I’ll just say that I think that the opinion of medical professionals who say people likely don’t need this technology really comes from the fact that the ER gets overwhelmed by people who think they are dying because of what they read on the internet, so while I think in some cases a watch like this could be useful, for most people it would just cause anxiety as they lack information to interpret the data. In this case you would have come to the hospital anyways, watch or no watch and I think that’s usually true when people are really ill, however we get a lot of cases of people presenting who are not really ill but just stressed and needing reassurance.
How about the people that have to turn to this tech to get help or maybe we are getting sicker and sicker because of the food that we are basically forced to buy now.
My story is that of a healthy male age 49 with sudden heart PCAs, tac and muscle spasms (like the beginning of a seizure). But yet 12 doctors can't come to the same conclusion. I've heard the gambit, COPD, stomach, cancer (cause some of my blood work was a tad high here and there) I had one put me on cyclobenzaprine, that damn near killed me. Made the symptoms worse and caused a fall.
So I'll take any tech that will make these doctors see what they DON"T WANT TO LOOK FOR because they already judged you when they walk in the exam room. Lets not forget the rules from CDC on infectious disease. Yup been down that road to.
I'm ranting because 5 years of this is enough. I have some really shitty experiences with ER techs and Dr. If you don't like the job because you think people are full of shit than you are in the wrong job. That person you made feel like an idiot from coming to the ER might have a real problem and guess what, they might keep records of their experience for their families to use later in the event of their death from what ever it was they went to the ER for.
DVXCine
I can see that you have obviously had a bad experience. I’m sorry about that. I never said however that I don’t believe people when they come in to the ER. I DO believe them, but often at the end of the day, it ends up being something minor that could have been sorted out at a clinic or with their family doctor. A lot of the time people come to the ER unnecessarily because they are anxious or because they feel it’s convenient and this makes wait times very long. The watch only detects one type of dysrhythmia, afib, so just as easily as it could provide information, it could also miss vital information. Someone might not go get their symptoms checked because their watch says their heart rhythm is fine for example. The point is just that, technology without the proper information can be dangerous. It’s not about not wanting to provide care, not at all. I love my job, but I also don’t want someone like you, with real symptoms to be overlooked because we have tons of people in the ER that night who don’t belong there.
Better more people are anxious and lifes are saved than people dying because they didn’t bother to go
Agreed, my galaxy 4 has came up 4x that I was in afib but when I sent to my cardiologist, he send there is no afib, I do get PAC/pvc, maybe that what it is reading, but it gve Me way high anxiety! Feel calmer now after he read it, im scheduled to come in on Tuesday but I was ready to take my self tp the ER, I totally understand what you are saying and thank you for your services.
I also had AFib reading with my Apple Watch sometimes. This happened twice when I feel my anxiety kicking in. Like, I get twice AFib reading then the third one will be Sinus Rhythm. I also got checked ECG and Chest Xray both came out normal. Idk which one to believe though.
We’ve all become an anxious stressed society
mines shite and the samsung
You need to be 22 years old to use ECG? It tells me I need to be at least 22 in order to use it. I'm glad I turn 22 in 3 days.
I love my Apple ecg but am aware that it is only one trace. It is important to learn your normal heart pattern and if obvious changes happen and last for a while and you have pressure, pain or discomfort or shortness of breath see a doctor
May have been a big issue for all the elderly you past flu to by going to the hospital with it!
Just watched your video just now and I can’t help but wonder that could that be a corona virus,doctors just didn’t had a name and described it as influenza.try to find the report and the test if you can it ,it may shock you.cheers.
You gave yourself a panic attack 😂 Put the watch away
So is this a red flag to see a dr. ?
Ruth gonzalez Yes. It is quite dangerous. It causes atrial fibrillation which means instead of beating the atriums are quivering. Definitely get it checked out by your doctor.
Wait... Omg, so I also consistently have the sniffles. And always blowing my nose. I always thought I had allergies. But a simple 10-second google search and WebMD told me I have a sinus infection and that it is serious enough that I might die in the next 24 hours... Well, I'm going to start donating my body parts at this point... It was a good run for my life peeps! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 sorry but I just find all that BS stupid. "I have had a cough for over a month now."
**googles symptoms find out within 3 mins of searching that I'm going to either die or I have pneumonia.**
Only think that makes me do is 'DIE' of laughter 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💀💀💀
*that day the young male adult died from laughing and google search results testify that laughing was his cause of death*
Too much extraneous conversation.
1st
He had c c c c c c corona 3:42
So you just needed hydrating a bit with electrolytes. Next time hydrate yourself properly first? - read up on that perhaps.
You had a bug, but it wasn’t exceptional and the doc probably woulda said, if he were blunt, that you did waste a trip to him. That your data did cause, like you warned others against just now, an unnecessary trip to the ER.
But you did, at least, learn that next time you’re sick, you should use electrolytes with your fluids before assuming a new and recent (temporary) heart rhythm blip is cardiac disease. It’s ok to be embarrassed.
If you drink only tons of water you can throw your lites off a bit - if you’ve been sick enough for long enough that is. Cheers.
Fucking conversation.....
Webmd, lol cancer
What a waste of time...