Tommy Korn, MD, an ophthalmologist at Sharp Healthcare, tweeted a video of himself June 21 applying his Apple Watch to a stranger’s forearm in place of an electrocardiogram machine.
“As a physician, it’s much faster to put my Apple Watch 4 on someone else’s wrist to detect [AFib] than finding a ECG machine at a public restaurant!” Dr. Korn wrote in the tweet.
Dr. Korn indicated over Twitter that the person who experienced the AFib episode is doing OK. Other Apple Watch users have taken to social media to share stories that the wearable device has helped alert them to unknown medical conditions, such as one user who said his Apple Watch identified an irregular heart rhythm and ultimately saved his life.
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