Apple Watch Saves Boy From Heart Condition
Apple Watch Saves Boy From Heart Condition
CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez has the latest on how an Apple watch helped to save a young boy from a heart condition.
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0.03 -> I always wanted to watch cuz I like I
1.74 -> thought it was like cool to like hat so
4.08 -> after a lot of begging Lucas Russo got
6.33 -> an Apple watch for his birthday but
8.37 -> almost right away it looked like it was
10.139 -> malfunctioning he was like my it's
12.33 -> giving me alerts that you have a high
13.53 -> heart rate I'm like what but I'm me and
15.45 -> my husband and his everything was fine I
17.34 -> think was even below I'm eighties
19.38 -> nineties nothing went up as high as his
21.33 -> was going up
22.05 -> Lucas's heart rate wasn't just fast it
24.39 -> was almost off the charts his heart was
26.67 -> going almost 100 beats faster than today
29.449 -> 200 beats per minute I said Lucas it's
32.369 -> so high you don't feel your heart I
34.89 -> always felt like my heart like always
36.63 -> pounding that was normal a series of
39.75 -> EKGs heart monitors and echocardiogram
42.329 -> z' revealed that Lucas's heart was
44.399 -> already enlarged the heart needs to
47.64 -> relax and when it's pumping really fast
49.739 -> it doesn't get time to relax if this was
52.77 -> left undetected over time this his heart
55.23 -> muscle will get weaker and weaker and
57.329 -> eventually fail and he would come in
58.68 -> because of heart failure at that point
60.51 -> so dr. rena 10 pediatric heart rhythm
63.18 -> specialist at nyu langone health
65.159 -> performed a small ablation to begin to
67.92 -> correct Lucas's heart abnormality and
70.08 -> then placed him on anti-arrhythmic
71.7 -> medications it's working we've done
74.61 -> serial studies that gradually showed
76.95 -> improvement in the heart function so now
78.81 -> it's pumping well it's normal in size
81.54 -> and basically looking like a normal
83.28 -> heart I probably would have had like a
86.009 -> heart attack on a pill or something and
88.28 -> it saved my life mom agrees save this
92.31 -> one yeah
94.229 -> now Lukas will probably need another
96.579 -> procedure to get rid of the abnormal
98.74 -> heart tissue it's driving his rapid
100.689 -> heart rate but that's done through a
102.009 -> catheter from his leg up to his heart
103.869 -> and for now his heart is normal enough
106.45 -> that dr. tan will probably clear him
108.31 -> soon to go back to playing football and
110.789 -> the abnormal heart rhythm wasn't picked
113.289 -> up for that really fast heart where them
114.67 -> wasn't picked up during a normal
115.81 -> pediatric visit because if you didn't
118.509 -> catch it right at that moment if it
120.609 -> wasn't racing at the time when the
122.039 -> pediatrician was well listening to his
124.149 -> heart rate they wouldn't necessarily
124.99 -> think that it was abnormal so that's why
128.349 -> it was missed until finally the heart
130.509 -> rate the watch Apple watch said hey pay
133.36 -> attention it's feels like he has more
136.51 -> energy now they've got it regularly he
139.12 -> didn't say you know he always felt that
140.62 -> it was normal business racing hard now
143.349 -> we feel better I guess
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bnsu65CoN4g