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[otnorot]

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Let's say it's 6.15pm 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 drag 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. 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 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.

 

[NorthernAutumn]

Another important part of heart attack protocol is to STAY WHERE YOU ARE.

In my mom's 1st aid course, the paramedic told her that most people are killed by sudden movement.
During a heart attack, a person's bowels often release. The person feels like they are going to poop themselves, and so they rush to the bathroom. Or, they try to walk to a bed/chair/ anything - some folks even try to walk through the emergency room doors, and that does them in.

A friend of mine just passed recently - fit guy, had a tiny attack at his fitness class. Insisted he could move just fine, went home, and was found dead on the floor.

I wish someone who knew the signs of a heart attack was there to stop him from moving until the paramedics arrived .

Thanks so much for posting this!

 

[Pet_Bunny]

Thanks Otnorot!

 

[slavetoabunny]

Great advice from everyone!

 

[otnorot]

Now I've been told the doctors dont approve of this method.
Bill

 

[TinysMom]

After reading what you wrote - I went ahead and checked on snopes just now - here is the link:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/coughcpr.asp