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April 8, 2016 05:39 pm GMT
More about Wearables, Fitness, Health, Fitness Tracker, and Fitbit
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Fitbit used in ER to determine patient treatment after seizure
Activity trackers like Fitbit are common for monitoring steps taken and distance covered, but these devices are increasingly becoming instrumental in painting a bigger picture of overall health — and in some cases, it can even help save a life.
When a 42-year-old man from New Jersey was recently rushed to an emergency room after a seizure, the doctors noticed he was was wearing a Fitbit Charge HR tracker
While most doctors don't have access to information such as when a patient first experienced an elevated heart rate before a seizure, the data collected on the device helped take some unknowns out of the equation. Read more...
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