{"id":45194,"date":"2016-04-14T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/can-your-fitness-tracker-fitbit-save-your-life-in-the-er\/"},"modified":"2016-04-14T14:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:44:26","slug":"can-your-fitness-tracker-fitbit-save-your-life-in-the-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/can-your-fitness-tracker-fitbit-save-your-life-in-the-er\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Your Fitness Tracker (Fitbit\u00ae) Save Your Life in the ER?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">WASHINGTON<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">April 14, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0Emergency physicians used a patient&#8217;s personal activity tracker and smartphone to identify the time his heart arrhythmia started, which allowed them to treat his new-onset atrial fibrillation with electrical cardioversion and discharge him home.\u00a0 The first case report using information in an activity tracker\/smartphone system to assist in medical decision-making was reported online Friday in <i>Annals of Emergency Medicine<\/i> (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.annemergmed.com\/article\/S0196-0644(16)00143-8\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Interrogation of Patient Activity Tracker to Assist Arrhythmia Management&#8221;<\/a>).\u00a0 <\/p>\n<div id=\"prni_dvprnevidc98bleft\" title=\"How an activity tracker and smartphone work together to track a patient's heart rate.\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: left; WIDTH: 100%\"><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" id=\"prnevidc98bleft\" name=\"prnevidc98bleft\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7ickOnY_zTs?version=3&amp;fs=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\"\/><param name=\"autostart\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"\/><object name=\"prnevidc98bleft\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" align=\"middle\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7ickOnY_zTs?version=3&amp;fs=1&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0\"><param name=\"autostart\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"\/><\/object><\/object><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Using the patient&#8217;s activity tracker \u2013 in this case, a Fitbit\u00ae \u2013 we were able to pinpoint exactly when the patient&#8217;s normal heart rate of 70 jumped up to 190,&#8221; said corresponding study author <span class=\"xn-person\">Alfred Sacchetti<\/span>, MD, FACEP of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in <span class=\"xn-location\">Camden, N.J.<\/span> &#8220;The device told us that the patient&#8217;s atrial fibrillation was present for only a few hours.\u00a0 That was well within the 48-hour window needed to consider him for rhythm conversion, so we cardioverted him and sent him home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 42-year-old patient with a history of seizures but no history of cardiac disease or prior episodes of atrial fibrillation came to the emergency department following a seizure.\u00a0 He had an irregular heart rate ranging between 130 and 190 beats per minute.\u00a0 He was medicated with oxcarbazepine and diltiazem.\u00a0 His heart rate returned to normal (between 80 and 100 beats per minute) but the atrial fibrillation remained.<\/p>\n<p>The treatment of recent onset atrial fibrillation is electrical cardioversion in any patient who can reliably relate an arrhythmia onset time of within the previous 48 hours.\u00a0 Because the patient was asymptomatic during his current episode of atrial fibrillation, it was not possible to assign an onset time for his arrhythmia.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency department staff accessed the smartphone application connected with his activity tracker and discovered the onset time for his atrial fibrillation was 3 hours prior to coming to the emergency department.\u00a0 After cardioverting the sedated patient, emergency department staff interrogated the smartphone app again, which accurately recorded the change in heart rate consistent with a rhythm change from atrial fibrillation to normal rhythm.\u00a0 The patient was discharged home with instructions to follow up with outpatient cardiology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not all activity trackers measure heart rates, but this is the function of most value to medical providers,&#8221; said Dr. Sacchetti.\u00a0 &#8220;Dizziness with a heart rate of 180 would be approached very differently from the same complaint with a heart rate of 30.\u00a0 At present, activity trackers are not considered approved medical devices and use of their information to make medical decisions is at the clinician&#8217;s own discretion.\u00a0 However, the increased use of these devices has the potential to provide emergency physicians with objective clinical information prior to the patient&#8217;s arrival at the emergency department.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For video showing how an activity tracker and smartphone work together to track a patient&#8217;s heart rate, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ickOnY_zTs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7ickOnY_zTs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a video demonstration of electrical cardioversion on a patient with atrial fibrillation, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yt9kBier_eg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yt9kBier_eg<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Annals of Emergency Medicine<\/i> is the peer-reviewed scientific journal for the American College of Emergency Physicians, the national medical society representing emergency medicine. ACEP is committed to advancing emergency care through continuing education, research, and public education. Headquartered in <span class=\"xn-location\">Dallas, Texas<\/span>, ACEP has 53 chapters representing each state, as well as <span class=\"xn-location\">Puerto Rico<\/span> and the <span class=\"xn-location\">District of Columbia<\/span>. A Government Services Chapter represents emergency physicians employed by military branches and other government agencies. 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