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akdalal
November 19th, 2002, 04:18 PM
If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll
save at least one life.

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 but the guy that 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 to be in order.

Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly 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. The cough must
be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
And a cough must be repeated about every 2 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! From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via
Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended
Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)

BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE


regards,

Anand Dalal

nrao
March 19th, 2005, 09:09 AM
I was going through archives and found this useful medical advice. Hope other members will find it informative too.