Hw 2 survive a heart attack whn alone..

Let's say it's 6.15p m and you're going 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 adiate 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

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 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.

thanx sccorp for this important thread,

good tips to do .. but, do u think that we will be able to do so if something happend?!! .. in same case I feel that I'm an inanimate & I can do nothing except the gradual scaring..

well, I really don't know how to make the CPR for others on this case .. I think have to know that eaither.

thanxx ^^

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These mentioned above r simple things we cud do. It always gud to kno such simple medical steps so that we prevent ourselves frm major trouble!!

Thanks gurl!!!! Now i can tell my mum these steps simple =D

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Thanx !!
this tip is useful ..
i really hate when ppl do u the CPR but this is really useful
thanx again :]

Wonderful information, thank you. I hadn't heard this before but it makes a lot of sense physiologically speaking. I'm going to forward this onto my girlfriends, everyone should know this!

Thanks a lot gurlies!!! I am damn happy tht the info is useful 4 all of u!

Good advice, definitely will spread this. Thanks.

Very simple but useful information, not something I've heard before but really I think it's something that a lot of people should be told =)

Thanks again... do let ur friends and family know about it too.