Fw: How to Survive a Heart Attack Alone

[Donald Lemoine]

thank you, John ,   Made a copy and gave to my wife, thankyou again.
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 04:33  AM, John Ross wrote:

>
> John M. Ross
> Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
> jrpiano@win.eastlink.ca
>
> If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you bet that we'll 
> save a
> 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 I 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 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 240's Newsletter 
>> AND THE
> BEAT GOES ON...(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart
> Response)
>
>
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