- May 5, 2000
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I was by myself and started having a heart attack. Heart problems are rampant in my family. recently I decided to change my habits to promote longevity. My sister who is an RN sent me this. Guess you don't have to lie down after all.
A cardiologist says it's the truth...For your
>info. If everyone who gets
>this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that
>we'll save at least one life.
>Read This...It could save your 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 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,
> 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)
A cardiologist says it's the truth...For your
>info. If everyone who gets
>this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that
>we'll save at least one life.
>Read This...It could save your 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 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,
> 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)
