A heart attack can happen to anyone. 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 breaths 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!