SELF CPR TO SURVIVE HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

 

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a lifesaving technique useful in many emergencies, including heart attack or near drowning, in which someone's breathing or heartbeat has stopped.

It is recommended that everyone — untrained bystanders and medical personnel alike — should learn how to do CPR.

It's far better to know something, at least, than know nothing at all if you're fearful that your knowledge or abilities won't be 100 percent complete.

Remember, the difference between your doing something and doing nothing could be someone's life.

What if it becomes the case where you are the victim, then what happens? How will you save yourself?

Let’s say it’s about 7.25pm 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 in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.

Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far. Maybe you have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.

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.

Also, after regaining some consciousness, the victim can dial his/her country's health emergency number, in a case where there's no hospital nearby.

ADVICE FROM A CARDIOLOGIST:

A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this message kindly shares it with at least 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.

SOURCE:

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