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From: Jerry Wall <jwbn6@iopener.net>
Sent To: healeys@autox.tem.net
Subject: Heart attack non-healey, unless driving one at the time.
Date Sent: 04 Jun 2004 03:10 PM
A cardiologist says if everyone who receives this email sends it to at least 10
different people, you will save at least one life.
Let's say it's 6:15 pm and your'e driving home ( alone, of course ) after an
unusually hard day on the job. Your'e 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 5 minutes
from the hospital nearest 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 who 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 DEEP BREATH and a COUGH
must be repeated about every 2 seconds without letup until help arrives or 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 rhythm. In this way,
heart attack victims may be able to get to the hospital.
This piece was sent to me by George Hargrave, one of our North Texas AH Club
members. I was not aware of this information and thought it important enough
to bring to the attention of the list since many of us are in that vulnerable
age group when incidents such as this could occur.
jerry wall
59 BN6
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