Heart Attack
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
The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually discovered this
And did an in-depth study on it in our ICU The two individuals that
Discovered this then did an article on it. Had it published and have
Even had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes. It does work.
It is called cough CPR. A cardiologist says it's the truth ... For your info, i f everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people; you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Read This...It could save your life!
Let's say its 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 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. What can you do?
You've been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course d idn't tell you what to do if it happened to you.
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 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 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)
If you want to know if it will work for you, just ask your doctor!
Although coughing is one thing doctors tell you to do if you are about to pass out, it gets the blood going throughout your body.
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Ask Corne . Our Resident Doctor on QL
all heart attacks start with pain in the upper arms and chest pains.
One thing that you shouldn't do is put your arms above your head. Whilst appearing to ease any pain it puts a strain on the heart because blood has to be pumped upwards to the arms.
Don't know about the main article but it sounds logical.
Do we have any docs in QL who can comment on this ? I have received this by email before.