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Don’t Discount Smartwatch Data

Published on Thu Jan 18, 2024

Question: I am training as a scheduler, and a patient called in saying that their smartwatch performed an ECG and found irregular rhythms. I thought the test to evaluate heart rhythm was called an EKG, and I thought it involved a lot of wires. Since this involved the heart, I got the patient in to be seen, but is this the [...]
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