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Heart Attack Warning July 1999 Want to know how to survive a heart attack alone? Give yourself CPR by coughing. Both the American Heart Association and the American Red Cross say this method of CPR is highly unlikely to save anyone. Realize that if your heart has stopped you are going to pass out in a matter of seconds. If you have not passed out, your heart has not stopped and you do not need CPR. You will have a much higher survival probability if you dial 911 before you pass out. Subject: Heart Attack Information For your information. This will also be posted on the Health & Wellness portion of the intra-net. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE A person, of any age, can have a heart attack. 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)
Copyright 2004 by Jay Jennings
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