OT:***** Subject: Heart Attack Survival *****
This was sent to me....please pass it along
Please pass this on to your family and
friends. I sincerely hope no one encounters
this situation in their lifetime but just
in case.
This one is serious...Let's say it's 5:17 p.m.
and you're driving home, (alone of course)
after an unusually hard day on the job.
Not only was the work load extraordinarily
heavy, you also had a disagreement with your
boss, and no matter how hard you tried, he
just wouldn't see your side of the situation.
You're really upset and the more you think
about it the more up tight you become.
All of a sudden you start experiencing a
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 you 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 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. A 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.
In this way, heart attack victims can get to a
phone and, between breaths, call for help.
Tell as many other people as possible about this,
it could save their lives!
from Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital
via Chapter 240's newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES
ON... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc.
publication, Heart Response)
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