If signs of heart attack arrive, what can you do
This is very
interesting... A cardiologist says it's the truth.... Heart Attack. For
your info. 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 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 did not 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 is 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. A 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!
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter
"AND THE BEAT GOES ON ..." (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc.
publication, Heart Response)
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