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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE :
This one is serious . . . Let's say it's 4:17 p.m. and you're driving
home, (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. Not only
was the work load extraordinarily heavy, you also had a disagreement
with your boss, and no matter how hard you tried he just wouldn't see
your side of the situation. Or your LBC starts to act up and stops on
the side of the road. You're really upset and the more you think about
it the more up tight you become. All of a sudden 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.
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this
article seemed 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 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 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 via Chapter 240's
newsletter. AND THE BEAT GOES ON... (reprint from The Mended Hearts,
Inc. publication, Heart Response)
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