How to Survive a Heart Attack when Alone
THIS
WAS WORTH PASSING ON - PLEASE REMEMBER IT.
Let's
say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an
unusually 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 neglected to tell you how to
perform it on yourself.
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 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!
THE
BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart