The huge trailer takes place on the parking lot of the local service point in Saint-Hilarion where until the end of the week, around forty participants will be able to pass a panoply of exams in the space of two hours.
Ten steps are scheduled whether in imaging, blood test or auscultation, as explained by Doctor Marie-Ève Piché, cardiologist specializing in prevention and Health of the hearts of women at the University Institute of Cardiology and Pneumology of Quebec.
“We reproduce the exams how if we were at the Cardiology Institute. We even use even more precise parameters than we use in search »indicates the Dr. Marie-Ève Piché.
All examinations are carried out in the mobile clinic in two hours while in the health network, making appointments of these exams can take more than 12 months, depending on the calculations of a member of the DRE Piché team.
-The results are transmitted and explained to the participant. “We plan, if there are fortuitous discoveries, how we are going to orient the participants for care”explains the doctor adding that her team is working in collaboration with the Health team of Charlevoix.
The initiative also provides local care in regions where certain issues are encountered.
“This is a new model to offer specialized care. Currently, we offer cardiology care models and chronic diseases ”observe Dre Piché. According to her, it would be possible to do mobile clinics also for respiratory function tests, for lung imagery or pregnancy monitoring.
Especially since the exams can prevent diseases even before the patient feels the symptoms. “Often they are conditions, when they are detected early enough, they are reversible or we can prevent the appearance of the disease. Cardiac diseases are diseases that can be warned up to 80 % if they are detected early enough ”gives as an example Dre Marie-Ève Piché.
