Subject: Fwd: How to survive a heart attack when alone

Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 10:21:14 -0700

Hi,

Not sure if this works. Hope none of us ever have to try it,

but just in case it is true, thought Íd pass it along.

Subject: Heart Attack

Subject: Cough at the right time

The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually discovered this and did an inđepth study on it in our ICU. The two individuals that discovered this then did an article on it...had it published, and have even had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes.

It is very true and has and does work. It is called cough CPR. A cardiologist says it's the truth...For your info. If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that wéll save at least one life. Read This...It could save your life!

Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and yoúre driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the job. Yoúre 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 yoúll be able to make it that far.

What can you do? Yoúve been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the course did not 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 to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly 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 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)

BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY

FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE.

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