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Location: Netherlands
Registered: April 2002
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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. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing
sputum from deep inside the chest. The 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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