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- Subject: Something useful
- From: AnnBonne@xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 18:28:13 EST
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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