How Apple Watch’s Blood Oxygen Sensor Saved a 16-Yr-Previous Skier’s Life

Apple Watch has been as soon as once more credited for saving a consumer’s life. Apple’s well-liked wearable has been reported a number of occasions up to now for detecting abnormalities in customers’ well being through the use of sensors that measure coronary heart fee, ECG, and extra. This time an Apple Watch has helped a 16-year-old skier in getting well timed therapy by detecting low blood oxygen saturation in his physique. The watch’s blood oxygen sensor can measure the oxygen stage of the consumer’s blood whereas strapped on their wrist. Nonetheless, Apple’s Blood Oxygen app is out there on watchOS in solely choose international locations.

In a CBS 8 report, Marcella Lee, an anchor on San Diego’s CBS 8 information channel, shared her horrifying snowboarding expertise in Colorado the place her Apple Watch helped detect her son’s low blood oxygen stage. Lee mentioned that on Friday morning throughout their snowboarding journey, her 16-year-old son instructed her that he felt unwell and by night time she observed his lips in addition to his fingertips had been a bit blue. So, she put her Apple Watch on his wrist to measure his blood oxygen stage and after a couple of seconds, the watch confirmed 66 p.c blood oxygen saturation.

Upon additional analysis, Lee came upon that in case of blood oxygen saturation of 88 p.c or decrease, quick medical consideration is required and therefore she took her son to the native ER. Surprisingly, the oxygen saturation stage detected by her Apple Watch turned out to be nearly correct because the tools there confirmed a 67 p.c blood oxygen stage. The medical doctors there mentioned that with sustained oxygen of solely 66 p.c, her son may have gone right into a coma. Nonetheless, he was handled on time and is doing positive now.

Lee added that her son was recognized with Excessive Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE), which isn’t frequent for skiers. Practically, one in 10,000 skiers in Colorado get affected by HAPE, as per the report.

Earlier in October 2022, an Apple Watch reportedly helped detect most cancers in a 12-year-old woman within the US by sensing her coronary heart fee and serving to her get therapy in time. Apple Watch reportedly stored warning the consumer’s mom of an abnormally excessive coronary heart fee in her daughter. Upon being taken to a hospital for an appendectomy, the medical doctors discovered a neuroendocrine tumour on her appendix.