How to Survive a Heart Attack when Alone
The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually discovered this
procedure and did an in-depth study on it in the Georgetown University
ICU. The two individuals who discovered this then did an article on
it,...had it published,..and have even had it incorporated into ACLS and
CPR classes.
It is called cough CPR.
A cardiologist says it's the truth.... For your information. If everyone
who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at
least one life.
Read this...It could save your own life one day. Let's say it's 6:15
p.m. and you're driving home in your LBC (alone of course). After an
exciting day at a car show or an unusually hard day on the job. You're
really tired or perhaps upset and frustrated from something that
happened at the office. 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 did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack. Without help,
the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel
faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
These victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and
vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the
cough should be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep
inside the chest.
A breath and a cough should 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 contractions
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 people as possible about this, it could save lives!
>From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240's
newsletter.
"AND THE BEAT GOES ON ...."
Roy Rogers
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