US: Apple Watch’s elevated heart rate alert saves mother and daughter – MacMagazine

News of people saved with the help of a feature in Apple Watch are not exactly new, with countless reports appearing almost every month in various parts of the world. This time, however, Apple’s smart watch helped save the life of not only a woman, but also her unborn daughter.

The case happened about two years ago with Veronica Williams, resident of the northern region of the state of Kentucky, in the United States. According to her mother, in late 2021, her Apple Watch sent her a notification of elevated heart ratewhich was repeated days later.

Worried, Williams called her trusted doctor, who advised her to go to the nearest hospital. As soon as the team at St. Elizabeth Hospital became aware of what was happening, they soon took her to do a emergency cesarean sectiongiven the seriousness of the situation.

The next thing I knew, they came in saying, “We need to do an emergency C-section. All good?” And I was taken out of my room and woke up in UC [Universidade de Cincinnati].

According to the surgeon who operated on Williams, the Dr. Louis Benson Louis IVshe was diagnosed with a very rare form of myocarditiswhich is — in an extremely simplified way — when a person’s immune system mistakenly starts attacking their own heart, as if it were an external body.

Fortunately, the baby came out of the scare alive and well, but the situation was not so good for the mother, who had to stay in hospital for another month to treat the problem with her heart. Two years later, Williams is doing much better, although she has to take medication to treat her condition.

I just want to say thank you [o Dr. Louis] for not giving up on me and giving me this chance to be here with my family and my daughter, and just try to live life as normally as possible.

Her daughter, Brooklyn, will turn two years old soon. To the FOX19 NOWWilliams called the situation a “Christmas miracle.”

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