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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 (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) but the person who
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 very useful.)
Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly
and who begins to feel paint, 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
(mucus, phlegm) 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 bring more 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 phone and, between breaths, call for help.Tell as many
other people as possible about this, it could save their
lives
From Health Cares - Rochester General Hospital via Chapter
240's newsletter (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication,
Heart Response)
Life means many things to many people. If you value life
more than anything else, please send this article to as
many friends as possible.
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