In Lunel, healthcare professionals take great care of your heart

Colette et Roland, un couple bien pris en charge par des mains expertes. A. C.

As part of National Heart Day this Thursday, September 26, the Via Domitia clinic and its partners organized an event on cardiovascular risks.

Colette was so happy that she went to get her husband Roland right away so that he could also get tested.

This Thursday, September 26, the couple took advantage of the facilities set up at and by the Via Domitia clinic as part of National Heart Day.

A stand specifically for sleep apnea

With the Pays de Lunel territorial professional health community (CPTS), the local Heart and Health club, nurses, laboratory staff and a dietician, it is difficult to ignore a problem, no matter how small.

From diabetes screening to calculating the body mass index (BMI), from taking blood pressure to nutritional information data, they were all at the heart of the patients of the day.

With a first for this 2024 edition: a stand exclusively reserved for sleep apnea. “It is a disorder that can be dangerous, explains Julie-Anne Rouvière, general manager at Labosud for the Inovie group, present at this Heart Day at Via Domitia. Sleep apnea can cause serious problems such as strokes and other heart conditions."

The importance of detecting heart failure

Like heart failure. A symptom that has the bad characteristic of being deaf at the beginning of the failure.

"We explain to patients that heart failure is often little known to the person themselves. However, it must be taken into account very seriously according to four generally minimized criteria, continues Julie-Anne Rouvière. This is what we call Epof: shortness of breath, weight gain (rapid and recent), edema (often of the lower limbs) and fatigue."

Supporting the patient

Beyond prevention alone, whatever it may be, these actions around the heart, kidney, cancer, etc. implemented during the year at the Via Domitia clinic are also a pretext to support and help people whose access to care or making an appointment with a specialist can be difficult.

“If the person does not have a primary care physician, for example, we make sure to find one quickly, explains this nurse who is a member of the CPTS. If we detect that someone needs to see a specialist fairly quickly, we put our network into action so that the appointment is not or no longer in six months", she concludes.

This Thursday, September 26, out of the fifty people who benefited from Heart Day free of charge, fifteen were directed towards an adapted care pathway.

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