Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. 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 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 neglected to tell you how to
perform it on yourself.

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 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! :)

Credit: Anonymous E-Mail

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