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Fitri was regaining consciousness as paramedics arrived. He was conveyed, conscious, to Khoo Teck Puat Hospital with abrasions, a neck collar and a suspected bleed at the back of the head. Police confirmed a hit-and-run.", "category": "protective response", "unexpected": false, "purpose": "Fall Detection is built to recognize a hard fall. If the wearer stays immobile for about a minute, it calls emergency services and messages emergency contacts with the location. That is what it did. The trigger was a motorcycle collision rather than a fall from standing. Apple's documentation notes only that high-impact activity may register as a fall.", "system": "Apple Watch Fall Detection", "model_version": "Not reported; Fall Detection requires Apple Watch Series 4 or later (Mothership, citing Apple)", "developer": "Apple", "deployer": null, "location": "Ang Mo Kio, Singapore", "domain": "Emergency response / road traffic injury", "segment": "Consumer wearables", "benefit_type": "Improved Physical Health", "taxonomy_note": null, "registry_ids": { "oecd_aim": "2021-09-29-a99a" }, "ratings": [ { "group": "personal", "depth": 3, "reason": "An unconscious hit-and-run victim on a quiet road at night had an ambulance summoned within what Wanbao calls the golden hour. He had abrasions, a neck injury needing a collar and a suspected bleed at the back of the head. His girlfriend was told where he was. The family and the Wanbao headline call it life-saving. No clinician or official says so and a passer-by did reach him, so life-saving is not established." } ], "ai_role": { "status": "assessed", "statement": "The watch's fall-detection classifier read the collision's impact as a hard fall. With the wearer unresponsive, it placed the automatic ambulance call through the paired phone and sent the location texts and calls to his girlfriend. SCDF paramedics treated and conveyed him. The counterfactual is unproven. A passer-by later picked up his phone and spoke to the girlfriend. The family at first assumed that person had called the ambulance, and Fitri was regaining consciousness as paramedics arrived." }, "evidence": [ { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Lianhe Wanbao, Chen Yujia 陈昱嘉 (2021). 准新郎遭撞后逃昏迷 智能表救一命 [Groom-to-be knocked unconscious in hit-and-run; smart watch saves his life]. zaobao.com.sg, 28 September 2021 (print: Lianhe Wanbao, 28 September 2021).", "title": "准新郎遭撞后逃昏迷 智能表救一命", "url": "https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/singapore/story20210928-1198175", "date": "2021-09-28", "written_by": "independent", "quote": "菲特里的智能手表检测到不寻常的剧烈震动后立刻启动了救援功能，链接手表的手机也自动召救护车到现场" }, { "kind": "news report", "citation": "Zheng, Z. (2021). Motorcyclist's Apple watch alerts girlfriend & calls for ambulance after hit-&-run accident at Ang Mo Kio. 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