En Actualidad iPhone nos hecho eco de un gran número de noticias relacionadas con las personas que gracias a las funciones del Apple Watch, have been able to save life. Being a blog in which we talk about Apple, we only talk about Apple product news, but presumably other devices, whether from Samsung or Fitbit, will also have had the opportunity to save the odd lives.
Some doctors in the United States have begun to show concern about the particular use that some consumers make, especially cocaine, since they are based on the detection of the heartbeat that both the Apple Watch and other devices allow them control their consumption and how it affects them.
The problem that this technology poses for habitual cocaine users is that it does not protect them from consumption, but quite the opposite, since encourages them to increase their consumption if they have a device at their disposal that allows them to know at all times how consumption is affecting them. If the heartbeat is normal, or within a relative normality, these users increase consumption until the Apple Watch sends them a notification. According to Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist and associate professor at the University of San Francisco:
Taking drugs is always a risk, whether you are monitoring your heart rate or not. In addition, it is possible that this type of device is motivating users to consume more cocaine due to the supposed sense of security that these types of quantifiers give.
Weis claims he has cared for a number of patients, cocaine users, who use both the Apple Watch, and other quantifiers, to analyze how each use affects them. According to Weis, there is no guarantee of precision in these types of devices (despite the fact that many studies claim the opposite). The consumption of cocaine, in addition to other substances, affects not only heart rate but also blood pressure, so the measurements made by wearables are not 100% valid.