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Urban Legend
Subject: Giving CPR to Yourself?
Let's say it's 4:17 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of
course) after an unusually hard day on the job. Not only
was the work load extraordinarily heavy, you also had a
disagreement with your boss, and no matter how hard you
tried, he just wouldn't see your side of the situation.
You're really upset and the more you think about it the
more up tight you become.
All of a sudden 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 you 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 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 phone and, between breaths, call for help.
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
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