PLEASE SPREAD THE NEWS TO YOUR FAMILY AND
BELOVED ONES!
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
are 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 is 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.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two
seconds without letting 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 phone
and, between breaths, call for help. Tell as many
other people as possible about this, it could save
their lives!
From:
Health Cares,
Rochester General Hospital
AND THE BEAT GOES ON (reprint from The Mended Hearts,
Inc. publication, Heart Response)
LIFE MEANS MANY THINGS TO MANY PEOPLE. IF YOU
VALUE LIFE MORE THAN ANYTHING
ELSE. PLEASE SHARE THIS ARTICLE with AS MANY FRIENDS
AS POSSIBLE.
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