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My sister just sent me this, thought it was interesting.
> Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're driving 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
> radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five
k's
> 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.
>
> Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their
> lives!!
>
> BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE.
> Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're driving 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
> radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five
k's
> 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.
>
> Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their
> lives!!
>
> BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE.
