Filip Brož At this year's WWDC 2016 conference, Apple presented new versions of its operating systems, which included several health-related innovations. The Californian company has once again shown that this segment, which it entered several years ago, wants to continue to develop and push its boundaries so that the monitoring of not only our physical condition is as perfect as possible.
At first glance, a small novelty is found in watchOS 3. However, the Breathe application can turn out to be a very interesting addition, if only because it is closely connected to the phenomenon of recent years, the mindfulness technique. Thanks to the Breathing app, the user can stop and meditate for a while.
In practice, it seems that all you have to do is find a suitable place, close your eyes and focus your attention on inhaling and exhaling. In addition to the visualization on the watch, the haptic response that indicates your heartbeat will also help you to relax.
Watch as a "health center"
Although similar applications on the Apple Watch have been working for some time, for example Headspace, but for the first time ever, Apple used haptic feedback that takes meditation to a higher level. Indeed, clinical trials show that mindfulness meditation can be as effective as prescription painkillers and can support the body's natural healing process. Meditation also relieves anxiety, depression, irritability, exhaustion, or insomnia that result from chronic pain, illness, or everyday busyness.
You set a time interval in the Breathing app, with most experts saying that ten minutes a day is more than enough to start with. Breathing also displays all your progress in a clear graph. Many doctors also state that we are often slaves to our own minds and that when our heads are always full, there is no room for useful and constructive thoughts to arise.
Until now, the mindfulness technique has been rather a marginal matter, but thanks to Apple, it can be easily expanded on a mass scale. I have personally been using this technique for several years. It helps me a lot in stressful situations at the doctor's office, before demanding exams, or when I feel that I can't cope during the day and need to stop. At the same time, it really only takes a few minutes a day.
In watchOS 3, Apple also thought of wheelchair users and optimized the functioning of fitness applications for them. Newly, instead of notifying a person to get up, the watch notifies the wheelchair user that he should take a walk. At the same time, the watch can detect several types of movement, as there are several wheelchairs that are controlled in different ways with the hands.
In addition to users with physical disabilities, in the future Apple could also focus on people with mental and combined disabilities, for whom the watch could become an ideal communication device.
iPads and iPhones have been used in special education for a long time to create communication books. Mentally disabled people often do not know how to communicate using normal means of communication and instead use pictograms, pictures, simple sentences or various recordings. There are a number of similar apps for iOS, and I think apps could work in a similar way on the watch display, and maybe even more efficiently.
For example, the user would press his self-portrait and the watch would introduce the given user to others – his name, where he lives, who to contact for help, and so on. For example, communication books for other common activities of the disabled, such as shopping or trips to and from the city, could also be uploaded to the Watch. There are many possibilities of use.
A life-saving watch
On the contrary, I really appreciate that the new system has an SOS function, when the user presses and holds the side button on the watch, which automatically dials the number of the emergency services via iPhone or Wi-Fi. Being able to call for help that easily, and right from your wrist without having to pull out your cell phone, is really useful and could easily save a life.
In that context, I immediately think of another possible extension of the "lifesaving functions" of the Apple Watch - an application focused on cardiopulmonary resuscitation. In practice, instructions on how to perform indirect heart massage could be displayed on the rescuer's watch.
During the performance, the haptic response of the watch would indicate the exact pace of the massage, which is constantly changing in medicine. When I learned this method at school, it was normal to breathe into the disabled person's body, which is no longer the case today. However, many people still don't know how fast to massage their heart, and the Apple Watch could be an ideal helper in this case.
Many people also take some kind of medication every day. I take thyroid pills myself and have often forgotten my medication. After all, it would be easy to set some notifications through the health card and the watch would remind me to take my medicine. For example, a system alarm clock can be used for notifications, but given Apple's efforts, more detailed management of one's own medication would be useful. In addition, we don't always have an iPhone at hand, a watch usually always.
It's not just about watches
During the two-hour keynote at WWDC, however, it wasn't just watches. News related to health also appeared in iOS 10. In the Alarm Clock, there is a new tab Večerka in the bottom bar, which monitors the user to go to bed on time and spend the appropriate amount of time in bed that is beneficial for him. At the beginning, you set the days when the function should be activated, what time you go to bed and what time you get up. The application will then automatically notify you in front of the convenience store that your bedtime is approaching. In the morning, in addition to the traditional alarm clock, you can also see how many hours you slept.
However, the convenience store would deserve much more care from Apple. It's evident that the Californian company took inspiration from third-party apps like Sleep Cycle. Personally, what I miss in Večerka is sleep cycles and the distinction between REM and non-REM phases, that is, in simple terms, deep and shallow sleep. Thanks to this, the application could also be able to do intelligent wake-up and wake up the user when he is not in a deep sleep phase.
The system application Health has also received a design change. After launch, there are now four main tabs - Activity, Mindfulness, Nutrition and Sleep. In addition to floors climbed, walking, running and calories, you can now also see your fitness circles from Apple Watch in the activity. Conversely, under the mindfulness tab you will find data from Breathing. Overall, the Health app looks more streamlined than before.
In addition, this is still the first beta and it is possible that we will see more news in the field of health. However, it is clear that the health and fitness segment is very important to Apple and it intends to continue to expand it in the future.
What is this nonsense? Isn't it normal today to breathe into the body of a disabled person? What you write is nonsense. Heart massage is done so that the blood circulates in the body even when the heart is inactive. And if non-oxygenated blood circulates in the body, it is certainly worse than oxygenated blood ... it is like having water cooling in a computer without a source of cold in the circulation and the water would only circulate. Same logic. The fact that mouth-to-mouth breathing is not performed is caused by the fact that they do not want to, unfortunately. But to say that it is no longer "done" today is total nonsense. I recommend this to anyone who has papers for a car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5OLbU1S5NY
You are wrong, doctors today really recommend only performing heart massage without artificial respiration.
This year I had three first aid courses and one personal trainer course. According to the new standards, it is no longer necessary to breathe during the blood massage because there is still some air in the body. But as the lecturer told us, even if it was an acquaintance of his, he would still be breathing. In the end, he said that it is up to each of us, but breathing is not necessary.
So I'm probably being mental, but you have 15 minutes before an ambulance arrives... and if you have deoxygenated blood circulating in your body for 15 minutes? I understand, it would probably be enough for everyone, but not for me. :)
I'm not saying you're mental?. I am not a health professional or a doctor. I'm just stating what they told us on the courses (several people independently of each other). The utilization of oxygen is not 100%, although it works, I suspect it is something like 30%, but I can't see it. The rest will exhale normally. The body never needs all the oxygen in a breath. Exhalation, which removes carbon dioxide, is especially important. When a person is "dead", the main goal for us is to save the brain, and for this a small amount of oxygen is enough for some time (most oxygen is consumed by the muscles). It's like when you're at rest, you have about ten breaths per minute, but when you start running, your breathing frequency increases several times, and it's not because the brain needs more oxygen. I don't know after what time the cells will start to die without access to oxygen, but our body is a very smart machine and when there is a lack of blood or oxygen, the blood circulation will be reduced to a small circuit, I guess the heart, brain and lungs, the rest of the body has no circulation anyway. And they probably found out through research that the oxygen contained in the cells is enough to nourish the brain, plus let's not forget that when we do massages, we always squeeze our lungs a little, which also sucks in a little oxygen (purely theoretical), but I think that's a debate about nothing, I didn't do research and I'm not a doctor. But I know that if I had to save someone's life (a complete stranger) and he was covered in blood or vomit, I would only give him a massage. Men look like a heartless person, but no one knows what kind of illness that person has. If I don't have a pharmacist with me, my health will be more important to me.
Of course, my safety is always more important than the injured person's. From blood or vomit, I understand that it's not exactly great to breathe. He works differently in the internet mode and in the "here and now" mode...
m2: thanks for the background, I understand it a little more now... the fact that I will be unable to do anything at that moment is just baseless nonsense, I was the first to get into a serious accident just last week... because no one else even stopped, and that I would have been incompetent and "coagulated" I think is a very bold statement ... but everyone reacts differently ...
don't take it personally, I don't know you, but in general it's really difficult to be on top of things at that moment and know what to do, not to panic and the like. If you write that you are capable of it, I would recommend that you supplement such "education", information in a driving school is not enough. one day, thanks to it, you will be useful in a situation where the others fail
It's also about experience rather than difficulty, during my first accident I was in shock and didn't know what to do at all (and that was without injury) ... with the second accident without injury it was better, but it still wasn't the same .... well, the more accidents I've had (be it my own or "others") ... the more calm I am ... the info in the driving school is really out of the question ... the video I posted above is worth watching, the person from the ambulance answers questions there .... and who doesn't know osbid, it's his business, anyway it's definitely not a bunch of amateurs ... but that's up to everyone ... I plan to take first aid courses ... but I need a car for that, which is currently being serviced again ... crashed ...
read from page 12: http://www.cervenykriz.eu/cz/standardy/Standardy_poskytovani_prvni_pomoci_2-vydani-2012.pdf
I'm not just quoting in my own words after completing the basic course and the extended 4-day course at Ččk: if you free the airways, by simply compressing the chest, "breathing in, breathing out" occurs, not much, but it does happen, mouth-to-mouth breathing is no longer required especially for hygienic reasons, continue to maintain a cadence of 100 compressions per minute and still breathing... well, try it... tested on the "trainer" and it's a massacre.
otherwise, apart from a hygienic point of view, breathing is avoided due to the fact that when massaging the heart it is important to constantly maintain blood pressure/circulation. Oxygen enters the body, through the skin, by partially compressing the chest, in short, it is better to compress well than to breathe chaotically and even worse...
if you're up to it, there's two of you, you just happen to have a mask with you... go for it. you drag logic, PC and similar crap into your comment, in a real situation you will be a hero if you don't freeze and you are able to at least call an ambulance, let alone revive someone...
so that's probably enough for that, otherwise the courses at Ččk are not expensive, they repeat them regularly throughout the year. I recommend to all.
So you threw up and you can go back to school.
Mouth-to-mouth breathing was removed from the recommended procedures more than 5 years ago. And for two reasons: 1) few people are good at it. 2) it discourages many people from first aid
Despite the fact that the experts themselves say that there is enough oxygen in the blood for several more minutes after the arrest, so artificial respiration is not necessary. The main thing is heart massage, but done correctly (but in this case, it is better wrong than not at all)
And about your video...I'd rather trust doctors and regulations than some association of a few amateurs.
Personally, I wouldn't decide whether to breathe or not, probably any help is better than just standing there and staring... Anyway, it's not easy. In general and no offense, it's a joke here (I mean, experts do it like this nowadays), in an accident it's about something else :-(
Once I saw resuscitation directly by an ambulance and the guy did it by massaging the chest several times and sometimes breathing, relatively little, until after some time they took out the defibrillator and started resuscitation with it, he was already dead anyway, so then the black ambulance arrived.
From a physiological point of view, it is sufficient to supply the brain with oxygen contained in the blood during heart massage, as it was written, gas exchange takes place in the lungs even during the massage itself. Artificial respiration is recommended if a person has physical abilities (it is very demanding for a physical person) and the knowledge to combine breathing with massage appropriately, or if he is not alone. It is also recommended for small children, those who are drowning and if resuscitation takes more than 5 minutes. I can confirm that there is enough oxygen in the blood from my practical experience in freediving (it's not just a theory), when I have my static apnea record of 4:27 and I was still fully conscious without any major difficulties.
Summary for the common man:
1) Tilt your head, raise your chin and thus make the airways accessible.
2) Check breathing
3) Emergency room
4) Massage the heart 100 compressions per minute until help arrives.
For those interested in more information, I recommend the application:
First aid – Czech Red Cross http://3cu.be/sharecze
https://www.facebook.com/salvaunavida.chile/videos/1143581312349550/ here is another illustration of why not to interrupt
Thanks for the video, it's exactly what I imagined! ?
And if you don't have a watch, listen to the song Staying Alive by Beegees, it has about 100BPM.
From a physiological point of view, it is sufficient to supply the brain with oxygen only by maintaining circulation by massaging the heart, according to the latest guidelines, breathing is recommended for: small children, drowning people and disabled people where resuscitation takes more than 5 minutes.
And from the Apple watch, we got to the problem of whether to give artificial respiration or not. I would like to see you all, if you were to revive your diet, would you flaunt these bastards!!!