Let's say it's 5:17 p.m. and you're driving home, > >(alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. Not only was the > >work load extraordinarily heavy, you also had a disagreement with your >boss, > >and no matter how hard you tried. > > > > You're really upset and the more you think about it > >the more up tight 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 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 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 > > > > (Since many people are alone when they suffer a > >heart attack, this article seemed in order.) > > > > 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 to > >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. > > Dr. Glenn E. Boley ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------------