HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE?

08/23/2013 17:24

 

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE?

Let’s say its 6.15pm and you are driving home {alone of course} after an unusually hard day on the job. You are really tired and frustrated.

Suddenly you start experiencing SEVERE PAIN in your chest that start to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don’t know if you will be able to make it that far.

WHAT TO DO?

YOU HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN CPR, BUT THE GUY THAT CONDUCTED 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, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing conscious.

WHAT TO DO? (ANSWER)

DO NOT PANIC, BUT START COUGHING REPEATEDLY AND VERY VIGOROSLY.

A DEEP BREATH SHOULD BE TAKEN BEFORE EACH COUGH, 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 MOVEMENS 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.

 

Reference: ARTICLE PUBLISHED ON N.*240 OF JORNAL OF GENERAL HOPITAL ROCHESTER

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