Please read this then pass it on. It might save someone's
life...maybe even your own!!!
A cardiologist says it's the trust...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.
Let's say it's 6.15 pm 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 our 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.
You
have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you
how to perform it on yourself.
Since
many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person
whose heart is beating improperly 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 240's newsletter,
"AND THE BEAT GOES
ON..." (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
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