Joyce Echaquan died of pulmonary edema, could have been saved, inquiry hears

An Atikamekw woman who died after livestreaming the abusive remarks of hospital staff could have been saved if she’d been more closely monitored, an expert witness told a coroner’s inquiry in Trois-Rivières, Que., on Thursday. 

Joyce Echaquan died of pulmonary edema, an excess of fluid in the lungs, according to the testimony of Dr. Alain Vadeboncoeur, an emergency physician at the Montreal Heart Institute. 

Vadeboncoeur examined Echaquan’s medical background, autopsy report and hospital records, to give recommendations to coroner Géhane Kamel.

He said the 37-year-old