I bet 99% of those are people trying to unclog the discharge with their finger.

"He recalled a patient who stepped out of the shower, fell in her bathroom, broke her hip and could not get up. Her body was found three days later."

So let's be honest. Who showers with their Apple watch, or any smartwatch for that matter?

Yup.

The most obvious "totally not an ad" ad ever

Engineers often think they know how everything works because they design one product in a sea of billions.

Eh in my experience engineers seem to be pretty good at figuring the basic stuff out. Doctors? Not a chance lol

Maybe apple just makes good products?

Decision fatigue is a killer

4 and above, including the newer SE have fall detection, heartrate monitor, and ECG. Will also keep track of their daily activities standing, walking, exercise.

I think 8 has temp detection.

No need to pay for the 8 ultra unless you are climbing Everest IMO. Not worth the price just for Health monitoring.

Edit to add: I find the walking and standing reminders are great for avoiding clots that can lead to strokes if they sit or lay down too much.

Fucking loser

Although I support the tech and hope it does well….30,000 dollar heart monitors routinely misdiagnose heart rhythms, especially acute changes.

I consider cardiology (not the basic stuff, stemis, blocks, etc etc) but the stuff in the weeds one of the harder parts of being a paramedic.

And I’d trust a paramedics interpretation way before a machines, at this point.

goofy way to try and push apple watches

I think OSHA's risk tolerance for me is lower than that I have for myself.

If you have a 0.1% chance of losing a toe for mowing the lawn in flip flops, eh whatever.

From OSHA's perspective, if 100,000 people individually have a 0.1% chance of losing a toe, that's a problem.

They’re biggest selling point is the battery lasts more than 24 hours. Like, how long does a normal watch last? The Apple Watch I got my wife has huge gaps in data and gaps in data means bad science. The gaps occur because the damn thing dies every day or so. So it goes all day for two days and then loses sleep tracking or whatnot? Please stop adding features and bloat and keep the battery to a month minimum.

Wow a marathon! Way to go!

A third degree hard block is pretty obvious. Any ER doc, paramedic, or cardiologist could recognize it.

I suspect strongly, that you were not in a third degree block when they took the EKGs. Heart rhythms can be variable.

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Help! I’ve fallen and I can still text the homies!

Nice ad apple

A few months ago, I read a comment here on reddit saying Apple can no longer pitch themselves as innovative, since competitors are now able to introduce new features to their phones and watches that aren't garbage and Apple can no longer sit on the sidelines and refine those features before adding them to their products and claiming that they invented them, so now they've pivoted their marketing to essentially arguing that you need their products for your own safety or you'll probably die. He/she was spot on.

Is lawn mowing dangerous where you're from?

Apple Watch apply directly to the forehead

Apple Watch apply directly to the forehead

Apple Watch apply directly to the forehead

honestly while there’s some art to looking at the EKG it’s not the most complicated bit of cardiology. this is one of those things that can be more automated than it traditionally is. It takes longer to wire you up than it does to take the reading and the patterns have never struck me as so complex as to be beyond machine learning.

while it’s not a replacement for a specialist it’s good enough to say “something is seriously wrong go to the ER right now!”

I wish my cousin had done that, his death was a tragedy. One of the more decent human beings I’ve known.

Had an electrician buddy of mine come over to take a look at a couple weird electrical things in my house.

Queue him trying to flip a 240V oven outlet right side up as the previous electrician put it in upside down (which was why my oven wouldn’t go back against the wall). I ask him if he wants me to turn off the oven breaker. He goes “nah, I’ll be alright” and I shit you not, 5 seconds later there’s a massive bang and his hands are covered in black soot and the wall has the same all over it.

He just goes “Well, it’s off now!!”

Same. I wear my watch to sleep every night. Between charging when I shower, when I’m cooking and sometimes when I’m sitting my my desk working, I’ve never had the watch die on me. I use it often for running too. Ran my first marathon with the Apple Watch.