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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

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 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. 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. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum

from

deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about every 2

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 240s

newsletter

AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc.

publication,

(Heart Response)

 

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