HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK
A cardiologist says that if everyone who reads this article were to send it to 10 people, you can be sure that we would save at least one life. Let’s say it is 6.15pm and you are driving home alone, after a hard days work. You’re really tired, upset, or even 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 five or ten kilometres from the nearest hospital, but do not know if you will be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the person that taught you, did not tell you how to perform it on yourself
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help, the person who’s heart is not beating properly, and begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. These victims can however, 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 (2) 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. This will
allow heart attack victims time to get to a hospital.