that lonely heart attack!!

Subject: Fwd: Heart Attack....NOT A JOKE!!



Valuable Piece of information

Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're going 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 drag 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 lives!!



A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail sends it

to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one

life.



Rather than sending jokes please.. contribute by forwarding

this mail which can save a person's

life....If this message comes around you ............more

than once.....please don't get irritated......YOU need

to be happy that you are being reminded of how to

tackle....Heart attacks....AGAIN...



Penni Giles

Continuing Care Administrator

NHS Cornwall & Isles of Scilly

Daromaba

House

Liskeard

PL14 3XA

Tel:

01579 335292 01579 335292

Fax:

01579

346989

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/coughcpr.asp


http://mendedhearts.org/resources/ab...coughing-rumor

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

Hi Daiwai I have seen this before ages ago, it is one of the many collective hoax emails going around.
See below..
http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/coughcpr.asp

I am sure no one needs me to tell them but if anyone has the symptoms you describe they should dial 999 immediately (or the equivalent in other countries).

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

oops - sounded reasonable - don't get caught like that too much!

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

You did it because you were concerned gumbud and that's all that matters

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

Thank you for this valuable info gumbug, i will save it in my favorites.

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

It's not true Dee, ring 999 or whatever is the emergency number where you are is best advice they will talk you through it as they get help to you.

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

And if your nowhere near a phone and don't have a mobile and there is nobody nearby , what then?

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

Chew an aspirin??! Whether anybody carries these around with them, who knows?

Re: that lonely heart attack!!

You die...