SELF-CPR
When alone, one needs a saving option!
I hope no one ever has to do this but it's good to know.
CPR FOR YOURSELF
What to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone.
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
that 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. A cardiologist says it's
the truth...For your info.
If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one
life.
Read This...It could save your life!
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 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,this article seemed to be in order. Without
help, the person whose heart is 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 hospital.
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 Response)
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