Although at first I thought this was some type of joke - but after checking the source, found out that it is no joke. Indeed, this may save your own life someday.
Please read it - then print it and if possible email it to as many people as you know. What follows is a word for word quote of the material:
" Subject: Very good advice about CPR A cardiologist says it's the truth....
Heart Attack!"
For your info. If 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 it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone), 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 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 person that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE.
Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack. Without help, the person whose heart is 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 trying to cough up mucus from deep inside the chest.
First take a deep breath and then cough vigorously. This must be repeated about every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Here are the reasons behind this approach at self-CPR.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and the coughing movements actually squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, many heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives!
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