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Surviving a Heart Attack

Let's say it's 4:17 and you're driving home, (alone of course). All of
a sudden you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to

radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. Your 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.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this
article seemed 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, 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 phone and, between breaths, call for help.

Tell as many other people as possible about this; it could save their
lives!

From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital, via Chapter 240's
newsletter, AND THE BEAT GOES ON
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. Publication, Heart Response)