Smartwatch helps detects lung cancer: Using personal technology to advance healthcare

The prevalence of smartwatches and other wearable medical technology has been increasing yearly. These watches offer a sensitive tool for capturing cardiac dysrhythmias and can lead to patients seeking earlier medical advice. This case report highlights the importance of clinicians seeking and using...

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Autores principales: Cole, Andrew Paul Charles, Kar, Ashok, Nimako, Kofi, Smelt, Jeremy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8733372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35003753
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20542704211068651
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description The prevalence of smartwatches and other wearable medical technology has been increasing yearly. These watches offer a sensitive tool for capturing cardiac dysrhythmias and can lead to patients seeking earlier medical advice. This case report highlights the importance of clinicians seeking and using the information provided by wearable medical technology which in this case resulted in both the timely treatment of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia and lung adenocarcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-87333722022-01-07 Smartwatch helps detects lung cancer: Using personal technology to advance healthcare Cole, Andrew Paul Charles Kar, Ashok Nimako, Kofi Smelt, Jeremy JRSM Open Case Report The prevalence of smartwatches and other wearable medical technology has been increasing yearly. These watches offer a sensitive tool for capturing cardiac dysrhythmias and can lead to patients seeking earlier medical advice. This case report highlights the importance of clinicians seeking and using the information provided by wearable medical technology which in this case resulted in both the timely treatment of non-sustained ventricular tachycardia and lung adenocarcinoma. SAGE Publications 2022-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8733372/ /pubmed/35003753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20542704211068651 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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