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What are you to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone.
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The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually discovered this and did an in-depth study on it in our ICU. The two individuals who discovered this then did an article on it .. had it published and have even had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes.
It is very true and has and does work. It is called cough CPR.
Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an usually 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 didn't tell you what to do if it happened to you.
Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack. Without help, when your heart begins beating improperly and you begin to feel faint, you have only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness. You can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. Take a deep breath 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 very 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 to 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 240s newsletter "AND THE BEAT GOES ON .."
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
If you've already received this, it means people care about you ...
The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually discovered this and did an in-depth study on it in our ICU. The two individuals who discovered this then did an article on it .. had it published and have even had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes.
It is very true and has and does work. It is called cough CPR.
Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an usually 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 didn't tell you what to do if it happened to you.
Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack. Without help, when your heart begins beating improperly and you begin to feel faint, you have only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness. You can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. Take a deep breath 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 very 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 to 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 240s newsletter "AND THE BEAT GOES ON .."
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
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