Please pause for 2 minutes and read this: 1. Lets say its 7.25pm and youre going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. 2. Youre really tired, upset and frustrated. 3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home. 4. Unfortunately you dont know if youll be able to make it that far. 5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!! 10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that well save at least one life. 11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a persons life. 12. If this message comes around you... more than once please dont get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack.
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When taking EMT training back in 1981 we watched a video that suggested dropping your chest cavity onto a cabinet corner to create a single blow to help the heart to regain rhythm, repeat if necessary. This was similar to the first responder providing a hammer fist blow to the middle of the chest when a cardiac event occurs and the person has just collapsed. Note that this would be very painful as when I was learning CPR, that cracking the sternum to rib cage was almost always a result.
