Auto CPR Heart Attack Procedure
Read this…
It could save your life.
Let’s say it’s
6:15 pm and you’re driving home (alone of course), after an
Unusually 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 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.
You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not
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, 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
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 hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about
this. It could save their life!
This article printed in Nfidwest Outdoors
newspaper