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Surviving a Heart Attack Alone



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 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, 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 240s newsletter



AND THE BEAT GOES ON ...



reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc.publication, Heart

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