SURVIVING
A HEART ATTACK
WHEN ALONE
This is a simple
yet useful piece of help. I have wondered myself what I would do if I were
to have a heart attack while alone. I got food poisoning once at a customers
home while tuning their piano, and I thought for a while that I was going to die.
It is fearful to be alone and feel bad, so this is good help. I suggest
you print it and post it on your church bulletin board or hand out copies. Older
folks who are alone will appreciate this. You younger pastors who are not
getting information like this out should be ashamed. You are the type who
will get very concerned after YOU turn 55, right. Why not get your act together
NOW. SERVE those older folks please.
Subject:
Surviving a Heart Attack
Please pass this on to your
family and friends.
I sincerely hope no one encounters
this situation in their life time but just in case. This one is serious...
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
They DID
publish this, but have since wimped out on it. Thus, we wimp out also for
legal purposes. Personally, your editor would definitely try it under the
above conditions.
It has been stated by a kind of heart official that an attack
by a slowing heat and faintness would be helped by this technique. If the
heart is beating rapidly, the coughing might actually cause trouble. So,
take your pulse at once and decide what you should do. Once again, litigation
looms over anyone passing on non-kosher news on survival. What is really
the problem here is that the medical profession might just miss a chance to bill
you for surviving. Nevertheless; disclaimer applies :-)
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