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how to survive a heart attack when alone

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Posted: 19 years ago
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READ AND PASS IT ON !!!!! ITZ ABT HEART ATTACK
Recently an associate
from
Satyam
- 26years old - died of heart attack. It does not come
with a prior
invitation.
Read and pass this message to your friends.

Read this...It could save your life. Let's say it's
6.15 pm and
you're driving home (alone of course) after an
unusually hard day on
the
job.
You're really tired, 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 five miles from the hospital nearest your
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 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, without
help,
the
person whose heart is beating improperly and who
begins to feel faint,
has
only
about 10 seconds left before losing conscious.
However, these victims
can
help
themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
A deep breath
should
be
taken before each cough; 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!!!Nowadays, heart attack
is
found among people of all age groups.