Apple Watch saves woman’s life by helping to catch her cancer early

The Apple Watch Vitals app tracks overnight health metrics, including heart rate, respiratory rate and temperature.
Amanda Faulkner came within 48 hours of death in January. Alerts from her Apple Watch saved her life.
Chris Keall for New Zealand Herald:
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“I thought I was probably just a bit anaemic,” she told the Herald.
But the Vitals app on her Apple Watch Series 10 – a treat to herself after wearing her husband Mike’s old Watch for years – told her otherwise. It was delivering notifications that her resting heart rate – usually around 55 beats per minute – had increased into the 90s… the alerts kept coming, with Vitals reporting outliers every morning, prompting her to visit her GP. She was able to share graphs with her Apple Watch, which displayed a clear trend.
“Hand on heart, if it wasn’t for my smartwatch constantly nagging me, I wouldn’t have even noticed something was wrong,” she said.
Unfortunately, something was very wrong. Her GP sent her immediately to the ED in Hastings for tests. Within four hours, she had been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, a rare type of blood cancer.
She was advised that if she had delayed medical attention, she could have died from her untreated cancer and its complications in a matter of days.

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MacDailyNews Note: In the Vitals app, you can view overnight health metrics—heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen, and sleep duration—to get a better understanding of your daily health status. More info here.

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