heart attacks

[Bob Cook]

This appears to be worthwhile in sharing with others that fly solo a large part of the time..... Another GOOD reason to carry around some O2 in your O2 <G>

********may be worth archiving Kevin.**********

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I have taken CPR about 5 times over the last 30 years, but I never got instruction on what to do if I was alone and had a
heart attack. Please read this and pass it on. It may save a life. I didn't know this,did you?

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 nearest hospital nearest your home, unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. What canyou 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 leftbefore 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 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 it could save their lives!

From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240's newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON...(reprint form the Mended Hearts, Inc.publication, Heart Response)

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[FRED-E]

This thing has been posted for 6 days now, has anyone tested it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fred N358