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What are
you to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone.
If you've
already received this, it means people care about you ...
The Johnson City Medical Center staff
actually discovered this
and did an
in-depth 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 we'll
save at least
one life.
Read
This...It could save your life! Let's say it's
6:15 p.m. and you're
driving home (alone of course), after an usually 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, didn't tell you what to do if it
happened to 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 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 very 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
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(reprint
from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
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A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE
TO
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