James Green is one lucky man. He was using the app Heart Watch on his Apple Watch and it notified him that his heart rate was spiking. He went to the hospital and they found a pulmonary embolism. He wouldn’t be here today if he didn’t have that watch. I guess those funky looking watches have a use after all.



Late last week, Green posted an image from the hospital noting that the “stupid lil wrist computer [he] bought 2 years ago” saved his life after it notified him of a spiking heart rate.
It turns out, according to Green, that he had a pulmonary embolism, which wasn’t just a spiking heart rate but is a blockage of the arteries. Green specifically thanked Heart Watch, an app that can be used to help alert a user when it noticed abnormalities in heart rate.

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