From: Jungbec@aol.com
Seriously, HERE'S some Good Info to Know!!!
Subject: --how to survive a heart attack when alone
If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll
save at least one life.
Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after
an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated.
Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to
radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five
miles from the hospital nearest your home; unfortunately you don't know if
you'll be able to make it that far. What can you do?
You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course neglected tO
tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article
seemed to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart stops beating
properly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left
before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very
vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough
must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the
chest.
Deep breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let
up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally
again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze
the heart and keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.
In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their
lives!
cpoied from From Health Cares,
Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter...
and THE BEAT GOES ON ...
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc.publication, Heart Response)
BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE
SAVE SOMEBODYS LIFE!
THANKS!
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