>Subject: Fwd: How to survive a heart attack alone
>Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 16:25:18 +0000
>
>Subject: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE
>>>
>>>If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that
>>>we'll save at least one life. 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 to be 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,
>>>and a cough must be repeated about every 2 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)
>>>
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