| Description | Subject: Heart Attack Information
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HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
A person, of any age, can have a heart attack. 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 AND THE BEAT GOES ON . . . (reprint from The Mended
Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
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