How to survive a heart attack when alone!!!

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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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.
• 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...