San Francisco: An American woman has credited Apple Watch for saving her and her baby’s life while pregnant. Veronica Williams, who was pregnant with her first daughter, received a high heart rate notification on her Apple Watch, prompting her to seek help from her doctor, Fox19 reports.
Williams said she received several high heart rate alerts on her Apple Watch, and noticed that she was “starting to have trouble breathing.” She then called her doctor, who advised her to go to the emergency room.
“The next thing I knew, they came in saying, ‘We need to do an emergency C-section. Is this OK?’ And I was taken out of my room and woke up at (the University of Cincinnati),” Williams was quoted as saying.
Doctors were able to deliver the baby safely, but Williams herself was still struggling. Reports said he was diagnosed with a rare form of myocarditis.
“What actually happened was his immune system was fooled into attacking his heart as a foreign object,” said Williams’ surgeon, Dr. Lewis Benson Lewis IV.
Williams remained hospitalized for a month and received treatment from Lewis. The report said that both she and her child are doing well now. Meanwhile, Apple Watch’s cardio fitness notifications have helped a healthy person identify a major heart problem.
As AppleInsider reports, a 40-year-old man wearing an Apple Watch Series 6 kept getting notifications about low VO2 max.
Researchers at the Sheckler School of Medicine and Leviev Heart Center in Israel ran tests on the man and diagnosed a major heart problem: familial non-ischemic cardiomyopathy in which left ventricular systolic function is greatly reduced.
After treatment began, which included additional cardio exercise routines, symptoms began to improve.
