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CPR HOW TO SAVE YOURSELF!
Let's say it's 6:17 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course)after an unusually hard day on the job. Not only was the workload 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 uptight 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 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 neglected
to tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO
SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, what can you do? Without help a person whose heart stops beating properly begins to feel faint and has 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. You'll be giving yourself CPR with this technique.
Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their life!
The
above was sent to me by my friend Mr. G. Fletcher. The article
was taken 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)
Enjoy
the little things in life, for one day
you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Author
My name is Saad ... I am a Mechanical Engineer (by profession) ... my hobby is teaching math to children. I have an 11 years old son, he is in grade 6 and his name is Farid (you can e-mail him if you want at the same address indicated below). I live in Montreal Canada for the last 25 years (I am originally from Egypt).
If you have comments or suggestions, or you want to write to my son .. E-mail us at smedleg@securenet.net
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