[ChangeDoesGood] What to Do If Alone During a Heart Attack

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Misty L. Trepke

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What to do if you're alone when you have a heart attack:

 

 

A prominent cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends

it to 10 people you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Read

this...It could save your life!!

 

Let's say it's 6.15 pm 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 k's from the hospital nearest your home.

 

Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.

You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught 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

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 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 pre

ssure 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!!