How to survive a heart attack when alone!!!
By sunilkonda
@sunilkonda (1215)
India
March 15, 2007 2:28am CST
Let's say it's 6.15p m and you're going 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 adiate 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.
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 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!!
A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail
sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at
least one life.
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@mummyofthree (2715)
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15 Mar 07
I have never heard this before. I think it should be publisized like meningitus symptoms and such like.
I will be sure to pass it on. Thank you so much for sharing it with us.
Hopefully I will have no personal need for it but as you say if passing it around helps one other person it will definately be worthwhile.
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@sunilkonda (1215)
• India
15 Mar 07
Thanks ...we may not be at a place where one suffers heart attack but if we can spread this message as much as we can then
everyone wil be knowing how to protect themselves at a heart attack time in case they happen to face any...


