Important Info. on Heart Attacks

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info on Heart attacksLet's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone)

after an unusuallyhard day on the job. You're really tired, upset and

frustrated. Suddenly, you start experiencing severe pain in your chest

thatstarts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only 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 thecourse, neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself.

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, thisarticle seemed

to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and

begins tofeel faint, has only about ten seconds left before losing

consciousness. However, these victims can help themselves by coughingrepeatedly

and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before eachcough. The cough

must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum fromdeep inside the chest.

And a cough must be repeated about every two secondswithout let up until help

arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beatingnormally again. Deep breaths

get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze theheart and keep the

blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heartalso helps it regain

normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims canget to a hospital. Be a

friend, send this article to as many friends as possible------it couldsave

their lives. Apte HO/IDT