Doctor Saves Life in Mid Air via Apple Watch Blood Oxygen Feature All Details

Apple Watch has some features that have reportedly saved lives on several occasions. Apple has been fighting a legal battle with another health tech company over its blood oxygen monitoring feature for some time now, but the feature recently helped a doctor save a woman’s life during a flight. The unnamed 70-year-old British woman was having trouble breathing on a Ryanair flight from the UK to Italy on January 9, forcing crew members to look for a doctor on the plane to assist with the emergency.

According to the BBC, National Health Service (NHS) doctor Rashid Riaz was on that flight and stepped forward to help. Report The 43-year-old doctor asked the flight crew if they had an Apple Watch to monitor the woman’s health. Luckily, a flight attendant had an Apple Watch. Dr. Riyaz then used the watch’s monitoring system to measure the female patient’s oxygen level.

Let us tell you that the SpO2 feature present in Apple Watch measures the percentage of oxygen carried by red blood cells from the lungs to the rest of the body, in which a low level indicates breathing problems.

Dr Riaz said the Apple Watch helped him detect the woman’s low oxygen saturation and revealed she had been suffering from health issues for a long time. “The Apple Watch helped me detect that the patient had low oxygen levels,” the doctor told the publication. He then asked staff for an on-board oxygen cylinder. This allowed him to monitor and maintain the woman’s saturation levels until they safely landed in Italy about an hour later.

According to Apple, the Blood Oxygen app on its watch is not for medical use and is designed for “general fitness purposes” only.

Let us tell you that last week Apple removed this app from its Series 9 and Ultra 2 watches due to a patent dispute with medical technology company Masimo. removed Was.