As long as your on a serious note...
Something that might save someones life
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
letting 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
savetheirlives!
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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