Friday, February 17, 2012
How To Survive a Heart Attack When Alone (from Renan Briones, I subscribed in FB)
I saw and read this in one of the interesting people in Facebook. And sure enough interesting people share interesting articles and this is one of it below (by the way, it has been said it is very much a pleasure of him to share it to everyone, so no further ado, am also sharing it here. It's up to your great intelligence to dig-up the rest of the this tip given):
It's interesting for me as I have a heart baby. One day I could share this to her. What about you?
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..!!
NOW 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..
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It's interesting for me as I have a heart baby. One day I could share this to her. What about you?