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Dear Camilla, Thank you for correcting the information that I sent to the list. I will be sure to forward the correction to my aunt. At 08:24 PM 11/12/2000 -0500, you wrote: >I went to the website for Rochester General Hospital, and found this caution: >Important Notice Regarding the article "How to Survive a Heart Attack When > Alone." > > Hundreds of people around the country have been receiving an >e-mail message entitled >"How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone." This article recommends a >procedure to survive a heart attack in which the victim is advised to >repeatedly cough at regular intervals until help arrives. > > The source of information for this article was attributed to >ViaHealth Rochester General Hospital. This article is being propagated on >the Internet as individuals send it to friends and acquaintances - and then >those recipients of the memo send it to their friends and acquaintances, >and so on. > > We can find no record that an article even resembling this was >produced by Rochester General Hospital within the last 20 years. >Furthermore, the medical information listed in the article can not be >verified by current medical literature and is in no way condoned by this >hospital's medical staff. Also, both The Mended Hearts, Inc., a support >organization for heart patients, and the American Heart Association have >said that this information should not be forwarded or used by anyone. > > Please help us combat the proliferation of this >misinformation. We ask that you please send this e-mail to anyone who sent >you the article, and please ask them to do the same. > > Sincerely, > > Carrie Arneth-Miller > Public Relations > ViaHealth Rochester General Hospital > (716-922-4055) > > Things you can do if you think you are having a >heart attack, > as suggested by our medical staff: > > Stop all physical activity and sit and rest > > Contact your physician's office immediately to report symptoms >and receive further instruction > > If there is any delay in contacting your physician, and your >pain persists, call 911 and proceed immediately by ambulance to the >nearest hospital for evaluation and treatment. > > If you have known coronary artery disease and experience chest >pain, sit and rest, place one nitroglycerin under your tongue and then >call your physician's office. > > Wait 5 minutes and take another nitroglycerin if you still >have chest pain. Follow your physician's instructions. > > If there is any delay in receiving instructions and you have >taken three nitroglycerin tablets five minutes apart and still have chest >pain, call 911 and proceed immediately by ambulance to the nearest hospital >for evaluation and treatment. > > If you have no contraindication to using aspirin, chew and >swallow one 325 mg. aspirin while you are waiting for the ambulance. > > For reporters: > > Other information on this issue can be gathered from Darla >Bonham, Executive Director, The Mended Hearts, Inc. email to: >[log in to unmask] > > Heart and other health related information is available on our >website at www.viahealth.org > > ViaHealth is a family of health care providers that includes >Rochester General Hospital, The Genesee Hospital, ViaHealth of Wayne > (Newark and Myers Hospitals), a Behavioral Health Network of >mental health and substance abuse services, and the Continuing > Care Network which includes Independent Living for Seniors, >Hill Haven, ViaHealth Home Care and ViaHealth Home Care II. In > addition, ViaHealth is affiliated with >Kirkhaven and Clifton Springs Hospital. > > | ViaHealth Home Page | About ViaHealth >| Affiliates of ViaHealth | > | ViaHealth Plan | Physician Referral | >Search Our Site | Contact Us | > > Please read our Copyright, Disclaimer >and Privacy Policy > > > >Dear Friends, > >FWIW this was sent to me by my aunt who is a nurse in Texas. > > >>Self CPR--please read!!! Not a joke > >> > >Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 82/70/55 >Oxford, Ohio > <[log in to unmask]> > > on PDWebring at >http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/genugten/flinterm.htm > > "Ask me about the CARE list for > Caregivers of Parkinsonians ! " > And visit the CARE webring at >http://www.crosswinds.net/~caregivers/index.html Sue 53/dx52/50 I plan to live forever---so far so good. [log in to unmask]