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How a smartwatch literally saved this man's life and why he wants more people to wear one
October 17, 2018 by Eric Milenson
An alert from his smartwatch prompted 64-year-old Australian Nick Byrne to go to hospital, even though he was feeling fine. It turned out his coronary arteries were almost completely blocked. Now he has a new lease on life and wants to share his story.
Life-Saving Watch Tipped Queensland Man Off Before Heart Attack
Nick Byrne did not wait for the priest's final blessing before he left Sunday mass in Queensland on August 1. He went directly to Hospital to learn why the alarm on his HealthWatch had gone off during the service, alerting him to a spike in his heart rate.
Thanks to the HealthWatch's heart rate monitoring feature that alerted Nick before he could lose his life.
"I had read about these cases before, so I knew it was something that was serious," the semi-retired stock trader says, adding he skipped family lunch because "I thought that going to the hospital was that important. It was a strong signal, not ambiguous. It said I had an elevated heart rate." Nick told DailyTelegraph.
That decision probably saved his life.

"I told the doctor I don't know why I'm here, but my watch tells me I have an elevated heart rate. He says, 'Are you feeling anything?' I said no, I feel fine, I'm feeling all right, nothing's wrong."
Hooked up to an electrocardiograph machine – which records the heart's electrical activity – he learned something was wrong. He was immediately referred to cardiologists.
"I told them about the HealthWatch giving me this reading, and they told me that the watch gives pretty accurate readings," says Byrne. After batteries of tests over the next three days, "they told me that out of the three main coronary arteries, two were completely blocked, and one was 90 per cent blocked."
Until that alarm went off in church, Nick had had no idea that his heart was a ticking time bomb. He is 64 but can easily pass for someone 10-15 years younger. "The engine inside has pieces that aren't working the way they should be," he admits.

"You name it, I have a little bit of everything" – including diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure for which he was taking daily medication – "but I have been taking care of myself." He had seen a cardiologist before who kept prescribing the pills, but never noticed there was something "desperately wrong".
Late in life Byrne had started eating healthier, consuming less fatty food. He is trim, though had not been exercising much lately. When walking, he would get a pain in the neck which he thought was a pinched nerve. This slowed him down. "If I had to be somewhere, I'd take an extra 15, 20 minutes just to get there on time," he says.
The watch was a Christmas gift from his wife about 18 months ago. "He is a very hard working man and i worried for his health so decided to buy him these HealthWatch", says Melissa, Nick's wife.
After the doctors shared the test results with him, they asked when they could operate. It took Byrne five minutes to agree to have the angioplasty, in which tiny balloons are temporarily inserted into clogged arteries and inflated to open them, the next morning.
During the procedure, doctors inserted four stents, small wire mesh tubes, to help prop the arteries open and decrease their chance of narrowing again. He was sent home the following day. "It went well and I'm feeling much, much better," he says.
A surprising outcome was the end of the pain in his neck, putting a spring in his step again. He surmises the "pinched nerve" was likely angina pain, caused by an inadequate blood supply to the heart.
"Having a new lease of life is a good thing," Byrne says. "You wake up the next morning and you look around you, everything looks more beautiful. It's a great feeling; you're on a high for a few days. That feeling is something special."
The self-professed Apple fan sent an email to HealthWatch CEO Mike Shepard on October 6, with the subject "Thank you, HealthWatch saved my life". He recounted his story, noting that "this was the first time that my watch alert had ever gone off, but I was not feeling anything, no dizziness or pain" and "in short, I was a walking time bomb".

After the successful operation, he wrote, "I have been given a new lease on life".
Nick concluded: "Please continue promoting the use of the HealthWatch for anyone with cardiac problems. I lost a cousin two weeks ago to a massive heart attack, and if he had an HealthWatch, he might have had the same opportunity I got – to live."
On October 10, Shepard replied: "Nick, I'm so glad you sought medical attention and you're fine now. I appreciate you taking the time to share your story. It inspires us to keep pushing. Best, Mike."
Now Byrne wants to share his story, to help make people more aware of what the watch can do, that it can alert you that something is not right.
His friends, he says, have bought "a lot" of these watches, and his daughter's husband bought one for her. His advice: "Listen to the warning. I could have gone for lunch, but I chose to go to the hospital. It gives you a choice. If you don't take care of yourself, no one else will do it."
Stories abound about how the HealthWatch – and other wrist devices with heart monitors – have saved lives by alerting their wearers to irregular heartbeats.

A Stanford University study published in the Journal of Personalised Medicine last May assessed the accuracy of 26 commercially available wrist devices in estimating heart rate and energy expenditure. Sixty volunteers wore devices while sitting, walking, running and cycling. The study concluded that the HealthWatch is one of the most accurate of these wearables.
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