Surviving Cardiac Arrest at Age 33: Jason Wang + Dr. Amer Johri PH265

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Jason Wang is a former collegiate basketball player who started CrossFit in 2011. He competed at West Regionals in 2017 as a part of Team Reebok CrossFit Ramsay. Today, Jason lives in Calgary, Alberta and works out at CrossFit Currie Barracks with his close friends and box owners, Eric and Christi Barber. Outside of the gym, Jason is a corporate and securities lawyer at Bennett Jones LLP with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, financings and capital market transactions. Dr. Amer Johri is an associate professor of cardiology at Queen’s University, the Founder/Director of the Cardiovascular Imaging Network at Queen's, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, and a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography. He completed his research/clinical fellowship in imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital. You can connect with Dr. Johri via Twitter @amerjohri Related Episodes: Ep 92 - Bob Harper on Surviving a Heart Attack If you like this episode, please subscribe to Pursuing Health on iTunes and give it a rating or share your feedback on social media using the hashtag #PursuingHealth. I look forward to bringing you future episodes with inspiring individuals and ideas about health every week. Disclaimer: This podcast is for general information only, and does not provide medical advice. I recommend that you seek assistance from your personal physician for any health conditions or concerns.

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0:00.0	As soon as I fell, someone was made aware,
0:03.0	and then the competition stopped.
0:05.6	And people who are not medical
0:08.1	or didn't have CPR training were ushered outside.
0:10.6	So the rest of the spectators were in the parking lot.
0:14.0	And then someone was checking my the moral pulse.
0:17.6	Someone was administering CPR.
0:20.1	Someone was giving me a mouth-to-mouth,
0:21.9	a couple firefighters and attendants,
0:25.1	and put the AD on me.
0:26.8	And it seemed like everyone was very siloed,
0:30.2	but working together in getting the best outcome possible.
0:34.2	Which, you know, I'm just like so grateful
0:36.9	that these people were in attendance,
0:38.9	like someone was watching over me that day.
0:40.5	Because, you know, I, only in a CrossFit gym, right?
0:43.6	Like that, you're able to have such a great community
0:46.8	of people who are working together
0:48.5	who really just probably met each other
0:50.6	for the first time that day.
0:52.6	Hello, and welcome to Pursuing Health.
0:54.6	I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician
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