Hi, Just in case no one knows this already I thought it is a good thing to know. After all the struggle and success with CS it would be a shame to die of a heart attack!!!!!!!!!
WHAT TO DO IF ALONE AND HAVING A HEART ATTACK > Let's say it's 6:17 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 he just wouldn't see your side of the situation. 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 you > 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 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 240s newsletter > AND THE BEAT GOES ON... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, > Inc. publication, Heart Response) >> > >> > > >> > >--------------------------- ONElist Sponsor ---------------------------- > >Campaign 2000 is here! >http://www.onelist.com >Discuss your thoughts; get informed at ONElist. See our homepage. > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Susan Light is "Living in God's Holy Thoughts." -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
