A dentist of Quebec death clinically 4 times

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The ambassador of the month of awareness of cardiovascular health, Jean-Luc Dion, is now back at work in his dentist’s office.

Catherine Bouchard

Sunday, 18 February 2018 00:00

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A dentist of Quebec has received the gift of a second life, on 22 August last, while his heart athlete has dropped to four times in twenty minutes, be struck by acute myocardial.

On this day, Jean-Luc Dion, 62 years old, went swimming on the lunch hour, as he was used to in the last twenty years.

High-level athlete in the 70s – he won five world championships in water polo- the dentist felt that he still had the heart of his 20 years. He was far from suspecting that it was going to fail.

Towards the end of the training, Mr. Dion felt a sharp pain in the left arm. “I finished my lengths and the pain has past “, lance-t-il.

In a total denial

But the discomfort has taken over, so that it is rhabillait. He was in a total denial. “The pain, I know. It was like in the medical books “, he recalls.

He went alone, by car, to the hospital of the Holy Sacrament. “I felt guilty a long time,” he says, arguing that it could cause an accident.

He was quickly transferred to the university Institute of cardiology and pneumology of Quebec (IUCPQ).

His heart has stopped once in the ambulance, to 14 h 10. “And then three more times, at 14: 29, 14: 32 and 14: 33. They had the choice of me resuscitate or to give my organs, ” observes Mr. Dion.

“My memory is that I am in a well and I am not able to get out. I was in the top of the tunnel, but I have not seen the light, ” he said.

Second chance

The medicine was eventually given a second chance. “For weeks, I feared the second that followed,” he continued.

Since then, Dr. Dion has returned to work and the drive and feel an urgency to live.

He is the ambassador of the month of awareness of cardiovascular health, in February.

A mission he takes to heart, since the day before his stroke, he had just made a $ 50 donation to the foundation of the IUCPQ, institute who saved her life less than 24 hours later.

His main message of awareness is to pay attention to diet, manage stress and playing sports.

Across the country

• A death caused by a disease of the heart occurs every 7 minutes

• About 1.6 million people are living with heart disease, or the effects of a STROKE

• 9 out of 10 people have at least one risk factor for heart disease and STROKE

• It is possible to prevent almost 80 % of heart disease and STROKE early by adopting healthy lifestyle habits

• Heart diseases are the second leading cause of mortality, after cancer, and one of the main causes of hospitalization

Source : Foundation of the IUCPQ and Health Canada