Apple Watch ad shows how the timepiece saved a life and helped discover a congenital heart issue
Had the Apple Watch not found AFib, Connor might not still be around.
Another life continues thanks to Apple Watch | Image by PhoneArena
The Apple Watch has saved many lives. This isn't an exaggeration. While Apple originally marketed the timepiece as jewelry, it eventually became a tool for monitoring one's own health metrics. From tracking your heart rate to monitoring your heart rhythm and looking for signs of hypertension, the Apple Watch is always ready to notify you if a reading is off.
Perform an ECG right on your own wrist
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Right on your wrist, the Apple Watch can perform a single-lead Electrocardiogram (ECG), which tracks your heart's electrical signals. With this data, the Apple Watch can check the rhythm of your heart looking for an irregular rhythm like atrial fibrillation (also known as AFib). The latter can cause fatigue, shortness of breath, and more serious medical conditions such as blood clots, strokes, and death.
Check out Apple's latest 30-second commercial for the Apple Watch
Apple has released a new 30-second ad for the Apple Watch's ECG feature and it stars an Apple Watch user named Connor who is now added to the long list of Apple Watch users who are alive because of the timepiece. He was training for a triathlon when he noticed that his heart rate was extremely elevated at 219 beats per minute. So he ran an ECG on his Apple Watch and it showed that he had atrial fibrillation.
Connor went to the doctor and was diagnosed with an underlying congenital medical condition that required immediate open heart surgery. He says that following the surgery, it feels as though he has a new engine. "I can't say enough good things about the Apple Watch," Connor said. "It's amazing."
The Apple Watch now spots signs of chronic high blood pressure, known as hypertension. If your Apple Watch detects signs of chronic hypertension, you will receive a notification that says "Possible Hypertension" and recommends that you speak to your doctor about this. You need to be 22 or older to use the hypertension feature, and you can't already have a hypertension diagnosis.
Apple wants you to know that the Apple Watch cannot detect a heart attack, nor can it spot every case of hypertension. Still, you ignore notfcations coming from the timepiece at your own risk. Next month Apple is expected to unveil:
You should start seeing this ad during broadcasts of Major League Baseball games, Major League Soccer contests, and NFL exhibition tilts.
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