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Heart Attack - Self Help |
Heart Attack Self Help Source: Ann Ventura, Director of Development, Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack,
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:
Let's
say it's 6:15 pm 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 your home.
Unfortunately, you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.
You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did
not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
- 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 hospital.
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Ann Ventura
Director of Development
310-829-8348