Your alone having a heart attack what to do

Good information that could save a life!!

What will you 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 had it incorporated into ACLS
and CPR classes.
It is very true and has and does work.
It is called cough CPR.
     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
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 didn't tell
You what to do if it happened to yourself.


    *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 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.*