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To Survive a heart attack when you are alone. |
What
are you to do if you have a heart attack while
you are alone? The Johnson City MedicalCenter
staff actually discovered this and did an in-depth
study on it in our ICU. It was published and
is now incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes.
It is very true and does work. It is called
"Cough CPR". If everyone who gets
this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that
we'll save at least one life.
It could save your life!Let's say it's 6:15
p.m. And you're driving home (alone of course),
after an usually 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 didn't tell
You what to do if it happened to 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 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!
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
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| The
Breast Cancer site is having trouble. |
The
Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough
people to click on it daily to meet their quota
of donating at least one free mammogram a day
to an underprivileged woman.
It takes less than a minute to go to their site
and click on
"Fund Free Mammograms" for free (pink
window in the middle.
(There is nothing to sign up for and no cost to
you.)
The corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number
of daily visits to donate a mammogram in exchange
for advertising.Here's the website - Pass it along
to all your friends!! http://www.thebreastcancersite.com
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