CaribbeanChoice: CPR for if you have a heart attack & you are alone

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What are you to do if you have a heart attack
while you are alone. 

If you've already received this, it means
people care about you ...

The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually
discovered this and did an in-depth study on it in our ICU.

 The two individuals that discovered this then did an article on it
.. had it published and have even had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR
classes. 

It is very true and has and does work. It
is called cough CPR. 
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
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 hospital nearest your home. 

Unfortunately
you don't know if you'll beable to make it that far.

What can you do? You've been trained in CPR
but the guy that taught the course, didn't tell you what to do if it happened
to yourself. 

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 very 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) 

Edited by thekfc - 22 July 2008 at 10:08pm