Ars Technica:
Your heart has four chambers, two atria and two ventricles. The atria are smaller chambers at the top of the heart, and their contraction fills the larger ventricles with blood. The ventricles then provide the powerful push that sends the blood either to the lungs to pick up oxygen or out to the body once it is oxygenated.
The proper coordination of the beating of all these parts requires a carefully synchronized spread of electrical signals through the four chambers. Given the complexity involved in getting this to work, it shouldn’t be surprising that it sometimes goes wrong. The fault for problems can be anything from a temporary physical change to a permanent problem with your heart’s development that started back when you were an embryo. The consequences can range from irrelevant to fatal.
Interesting post explaining something most of us have heard about but may not understand.
Got it. Found out about it the night before my triple heart bypass. When I saw the Series 4 watch tests for it, I ordered. It’s on my wrist waiting for the software update.
A balanced discussion of the problems with the announcement of the cardiac functions of the watch, albeit with a clickbait headline:
https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/revolutionandrevelation/75318?xid=nl_mpt_blog2018-09-26&eun=g1226760d0r&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MiltonPacker_092618&utm_term=Packer%20Blog%20-%20Cardio%20list
Excellent post on a-fib, thanks for the link.
I just got the series 4 and it’s working well. I was diagnosed with a-fib a few weeks ago although I may have a tick-borne infection that’s causing my atrial flutter. I hope to know in a few days.
The watch is terrific and if the EKG works well it will do a treat service. Hopefully there won’t be too many false positives in heart monitoring as well as fall detection.