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SELF CPR
What are you to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone?
The following information was discovered by the Johnson City Medical Centre in the USA, following it up with an in-depth study on the subject.
The information is reported to be very true and has and does work.
It is called Cough CPR. Please read this. It could save your life!
Let’s say it’s 6:15pm. You’re driving home (alone, of course) after an unusually hard day at work. You are really tired, upset 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 about five miles from the hospital nearest to 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 (cardio pulmonary resuscitation) but the chap that taught the course didn't tell you what to do if it happened to yourself!
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.
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. It should be similar to 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. This squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Please tell as many people as possible about this, as it could ultimately save their lives!
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