Apple Watch saves Texas man’s life

A man from Austin, Texas, owes his life to an unexpected Apple Watch alert about his heart rate, which spurred him to get medical help. Gomez credits the notification with potentially saving his life, a sentiment echoed by his doctors. Heart disease remains the top killer of both men and women across the U.S.

Jenna King for Fox 7 Austin:
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For Gomez, his Apple Watch was just another tool to track his workouts and monitor his calories.
However, on Jan. 24, Gomez got an alert he had never seen before: an elevated heart rate warning, followed by more notifications.
“The fifth notification that said we have detected, you know, atrial fibrillation. Contact your emergency. Contact your health professional immediately. And I was like, wow that’s pretty strange,” said Gomez.
Even though Gomez felt fine, he decided to listen to his watch and go to the hospital.
“They said, yeah, well, let’s go ahead and hook you up, and check you out and, you know, see what’s going on. And sure enough, they confirmed it within a minute of hooking up like, yeah, you’re in serious Afib right now,” said Gomez.
Atrial fibrillation, or Afib, is an irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia, says the American Heart Association, which can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications. The AHA says over five million Americans have Afib.
Thankfully, Gomez was able to get the help he needed and was told, had he not come in, he could have had a stroke which would have likely killed him.

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MacDailyNews Take: Yet another life saved, thanks to Apple Watch!

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