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Dear Friends, FWIW this was sent to me by my aunt who is a nurse in Texas. >Self CPR--please read!!! Not a joke > > > >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 your > > >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 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 240's > > >newsletter > > >AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. > > >publication, Heart Response) > > > > > > > Sue 53/dx52/50 I plan to live forever---so far so good. [log in to unmask]