The government organization looked at the death of Roger Coupal, a 68 -year -old man from Bedford, in Montérégie, found dead in his apartment on December 12.
Two days earlier, the sixty-something man had undergone “multiple dental extractions” in a dental surgeon.
Roger Coupal (Facebook)
He suffered from high blood pressure, pulmonary fibrosis, obstructive pulmonary disease and atherosclerotic vascular disease which he dealt with with anticoagulant medication.
However, he had not declared all his drugs and diseases upstream of the intervention, if not to register “daily caillot injections” in a medical form.
“In the afternoon and in the evening, he complained to a loved one that he had an important bleeding and that he swallowed a lot of blood,” said Coroner Me Donald Nicole reported on April 11.
Mr. Coupal did not respond to the post-intervention tracking call, the day following his operation, in the morning, and a little later his neighbor of the below heard a noise.
Then nothing.
Worried, she burst into Mr. Coupal the next day. She discovered it lifeless in her bathroom, kneeling and the upper body leaning.
-His body was without vital and rigid signs that any resuscitation maneuver was impracticable, underlines the coroner.
Many traces of blood have been found in its bathroom, living room and couch, in addition to a bucket containing half a liter of this liquid as well as soaked papers.
“All that suggests that he had lost a lot of blood in the hours following his visit to the dentist,” said the report.
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Roger Coupal is probably dead from a hypovolemic shock (an insufficiency of blood) resulting from a hemorrhage “resulting from recent dental extractions while his anticoagulant medication had not been stopped”.
No injury or sign of violence has contributed to death, just like no alcohol or drug use has been detected.
Coroner Me Donald Nicole does not decide on the civil or criminal responsibility of the dentist concerned, nor on the quality of professional acts posed since this is not part of his mandate.
However, he recalls that the Order of Dentists strongly recommends checking with a Health Québec file in order to overcome any missing information.
Above all, he recommends for this order to remind his members that they have the obligation to revise the health sheet and the medical questionnaire of their patients at each appointment and, more precisely, to verify whether the patient takes anticoagulant or antiplatelet medication “before any surgical intervention”.
The Order of Dentists of Quebec has not responded to messages from The voice of the EastWednesday.
