MOBLEYC57
03-25-2006, 08:18 PM
Don't know if
I've posted this before. If not ... good! If so ... refresher course ... gooder!!! :thumbsup:
HOW TO
SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE
I can bet that we'll save at least one life. :angel:
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. :sad:
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. :box:
Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel
faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. :sick:
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! :thumbsup:
From Health Cares, Rochester General
Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication,
Heart Response)
I've posted this before. If not ... good! If so ... refresher course ... gooder!!! :thumbsup:
HOW TO
SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE
I can bet that we'll save at least one life. :angel:
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. :sad:
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. :box:
Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to feel
faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. :sick:
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! :thumbsup:
From Health Cares, Rochester General
Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication,
Heart Response)