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Will smartwatches with heart rate/other health sensors be able to detect strokes right when they happen? Or maybe even slightly before they do?

• tdicola 12y ago
  I don't see how a clot in the brain would be detectable through heart rate at all.
  • GuiA 12y ago
    Not sure, but maybe at a preventative level? E.g. if your heart rate behaves a certain way after exercise or during sleep, maybe it indicates a stronger likelihood of having a blood clot. Well I don't know, I'm not a doctor- that's why I'm asking the question, hoping that someone knowledgeable will answer with a concrete reasoning. Your comment in its present form is quite pointless.
  • prawn 12y ago
    I had a couple of ECGs recently. I'm not sure if they could get anything approaching the same graph through a watch some distance from the heart (the ECG has 8 or so contact points around the chest) but I did notice that a good portion of the cardiologists judgement came from inspecting the graph rather than anything more complex.
• jonmrodriguez 12y ago
  One similar thing I really want is a smartwatch that will call 911 if my heart stops. Nowadays with hypothermia-assisted CPR [1], a person can be resuscitated up to 15 minutes after their heart stops! [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3389464/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3389464/
• Cass 12y ago
  A smartwatch with a pulse sensor could easily detect an arrhythmic pulse, which can be a symptom of atrial fibrillation, one of the most common causes of strokes. You couldn't diagnose a stroke itself just from heart rate and blood pressure, though. There's way too many other factors that can cause variations in those.