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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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