Deja doc: Calgary surgeon saves 2 men with CPR, then performs their heart operations
CALGARY — Dr. Corey Adams should perhaps buy himself a superhero costume.
Adams, a cardiac surgeon at the University of Calgary’s Libin Cardiovascular Institute, has saved two men in the past 18 months by first performing CPR on them in public and then, days later, operating on them.
In June of last year, Adams and his wife Jennifer, who’s also a doctor, were hiking near Canmore, Alta., when someone called for help. A man had collapsed and was turning blue.
Adams did 20 minutes of CPR on the 60-year-old man. Days later, a patient on whom he was performing a quintuple heart bypass turned out to be the same man.