Good Info.........
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 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
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 240's newsletter.
AND THE BEAT GOES ON