Tuesday, November 28, 2006

How To Survive A Heart Attack ...

Let's say it's 6.15p m and you're going home (alone ofcourse), after an unusually hard day on the job.You're really tired, upset and frustrated.

Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in yourchest that starts to adiate out into your arm and upinto your jaw. You are only about five miles from thehospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don'tknow if you'll be able to make it that far. You havebeen trained in CPR, but the guy that taught thecourse did not 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 heartattack, without help,the person whose heart is beatingimproperly and who begins to feel faint, has onlyabout 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.

However,these victims can help themselves by coughingrepeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath shouldbe taken before each cough, and the cough must be deepand prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.

A breath and a cough must be repeated about every twoseconds without let-up until help arrives, or untilthe heart is felt to be beating normally again.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughingmovements squeeze the heart and keep the bloodcirculating. The squeezing pressure on the heart alsohelps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heartattack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as manyother people as possible about this. It could savetheir lives!!

A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this tips and inform it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save atleast one life.

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