Was in the ER for swollen lymph node yesterday . While I was connected to their equipment, I compared what my Wyze watch said my heart rate and blood oxygen level were to what their multi thousand dollar equipment said it was. (the reference)
The heart rate was a heart monitor and their oximeter was on the middle finger on my right hand. The Wyze watch is worn on my right wrist.
Even the nurses couldn’t believe how close the two were.
Thank you for the concern. Fortunately I was in no pain. My neck looked like Jabba the Hutt. Waiting at the hospital is never fun. Fortunately I have a repertoire of jokes about the medical field. I try to be as pleasant as possible.
An example
What do you get when you soak your funny bone in water? You get laughing stock. That’s humerus.
Thanks for the concern.
The 101 heart rate was due to it being measured at 8:45 pm, and I had taken my meds over 12 hours earlier at 8:00 that morning.
Thank you so much for your response with an illustration.
Can one increase the frequency of Heart Rate testing or is 5 min is a set?
Also, did you test the accuracy of HR measurement against manual counting etc.
I purchased a watch from Chiana it shower 65 Hr reading when I plav=ced the watch against 2x4
Thanks again for your help.
The equipment at the hospital is more accurate than manually feeling for a pulse so I did not do that.
Slightly related tangent ——>>>>. My mother was a grade school math teacher. When calculators were first introduced, she would use the calculator then do it manually just to check the calculator.
5 minutes is the only setting for continuous heart rate monitoring.
Don’t mention haunted to my wife. She is a very intelligent woman. About 20 years ago she was working late at night in the basement of a bank that was in a really old building. She heard a creak from a door opening, but she was the only one working in the building at 2am, She saw a pair of shoes that were not attached to a body, then when she came back into the room the shoes were not there. The building was locked securely beng a bank, and she had to buzz people in.