Fitness Tracker for the first time helped save a person's life

42-year-old man from New Jersey came to the emergency room after a heart attack. After reviewing the data with his fitness tracker Fitbit Charge HR, doctors made the right decision to spend cardioversion - cardioversion to restore deporyalizatsii infarction and cardiac rhythm. Case described in a scientific journal for resuscitation - the first known case of a fitness tracker to help save a life

. Upon arrival in the intensive care unit doctors immediately recorded in the patient's atrial fibrillation - a kind of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias with chaotic electrical activity of the atria. But it was unclear whether she has a chronic, or cause seizures, which occurred 20 minutes earlier.

This is critical information to doctors decided whether to apply a cardioversion to restore a stable heart rhythm. The fact is that if a tachycardia is chronic, the electrical pulse may dislodge the clot and send it to the aorta, which threatens stroke. On the other hand, to abstain from therapy also threatened stroke.

Fortunately, doctors noticed on the patient's arm fitness tracker, which measures the heart rate.

Experts understand that it is associated with an application on your smartphone, where history is preserved. They launched the app and saw that the basic heart rate is in the range of 70-80 beats per minute, with rapid and sustained growth to 140-160 beats around the time of the attack.



That is, the application has confirmed that atrial fibrillation appeared after the attack, so it should be continued and carried out elektrokardioversiyu.

Probably, in the emergency room is still held to this procedure, but it would then be a risk. Fitness Tracker provided the information to make an informed decision.

Previously, these devices are only used in medicine for monitoring patient activity. Now - the first time a fitness tracker really useful for resuscitation.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/274116/