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Something useful



Something none bike but worthwhile knowing for those lonely rides in the 
wilderness.   

    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 you 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) via my mate who is a charge nurse in Saudi Arabia Hospital 
 Intensive Care Unit.        Ann Bonnewell
 
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