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What to do if you are have a
heart attach
And you are alone!
(not to be taken as advice
from a doctor-
Ask your doctor what to do
-this is an extract
From Rochester hospital
journal - no liability assumed or implied)
Let's say it's 6.15pm
and you're driving home (alone of course)
After an unusually hard day
on the job.
You're really tired, and
frustrated……
You are really
stressed and upset.
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 five miles from
the hospital nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don't know
if you'll 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 vigorously.
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
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
Article
published on n.º 240 of
journal of General
Hospital Rochester
also see
http://www.strokeawareness.org/TOPIC/recognizing.htm
http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Heart_attack_explained?OpenDocument
The logo links to more information at
http://www.heartfoundation.org.au/index.htm
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