Self CPR

[amadeus2]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]What are you to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone? [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]If you've already received this, it means people care about you [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]...[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually discovered this[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]and did an in-depth study on it in our ICU. The two individuals that[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]discovered this then did an article on it .. had it published and have[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]even had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]It is very true and has and does work. It is called cough CPR. A cardiologist says it's the truth ... For your info ...If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Read This...It could save your life! Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an usually hard day on the job. You're really tired, upset, and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to radiate out intoyour 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.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]What can you do? You've been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course didn't tell you what to do if it happened to yourself.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica],[/FONT]
this article seemed to be in order. 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,
as when producing sputum from deep inside the
chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated
about very 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 pressureon
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!
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter "AND THE BEAT GOES ON."
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE!![/FONT]​

 

[davedajobauk]

What are you to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone?

If you've already received this, it means people care about you ...
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The Johnson City Medical Center staff [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]actually discovered this[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]and did an in-depth study on it in our ICU. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]The two individuals that [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica]discovered this then did an article on it .. had it published [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]and have[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]even had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]It is very true and has and does work. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]It is called cough CPR. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]A cardiologist says it's the truth ... For your info ...[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Read This...It could save your life! [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an usually hard day on the job. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]You're really tired, upset, and frustrated. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]that starts to radiate out into your arm and up into your jaw. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]You are only about five miles from the hospital nearest your home. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]What can you do? [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]You've been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course didn't tell you what to do if it happened to yourself[/FONT]

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack,
this article seemed to be in order. 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,
as when producing sputum from deep inside the
chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated
about very 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 pressureon
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!

From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter "AND THE BEAT GOES ON."
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica]TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE[/FONT]

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Well, sure! It sounds pretty effective 'on the surface'

I would like to ask HOW ?
do I take the FIRST BREATH let alone do so, without let up

The Lead Jacket, I have about me
is ever-tightening...
breathing AT-ALL is a struggle
as if there are straps around my chest

AWARE, that my heart is misbehaving...
I beat rapidly against my chest wall in that region of my heart
GIVING IT... ALL THAT I HAVE with the ball of my clenched fist
I TELL MYSELF "DON'T PANIC, if, this is gonna happen NOW
THIS PAIN will soon be gone, so quit worrying"

Having the presence of mind, to react to something 'like-this'
is paramount
to being able to be 'riding it out' until assistance arrives

Whilst, I believe, this information
is in many ways 'reassuring'
The ability of such a patient to achieve such respiratory response
to an attack, will, be sorely tested
and yes, giving consideration
to the reason the heart is in spasm
ie: blocked blood vessels in / or, supplying muscles of the heart
the chest beating could re-enable circulation there

Also, it may give the patient, who at such a time
may, RECALL this advice... the sense that THERE IS
'something' that he or, she can do
for-themselves
ie: in the absence of company

Thank you Amadeus... thank you very much for sharing this



dave

 

[buttercup2000]

Thanks, Amadeus.

P.S. Hope your wife is making a quick recovery.

 

[amadeus2]

You are very welcome. A family member E-mailed it to me from California. I am simply passing it along in the hope that someone willl benefit from it.

 

[leytonstones]

Thanks for sharing