01/18/2022
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Dr. Patrick Teefy
Cardiology Head
Nuclear Medine Institute
University Hospital, London, Ont.
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
1. Let ‘s say it’s 7.25pm & you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day.
2. You’re tired, upset & frustrated.
3. Suddenly you begin experiencing severe chest pain that starts to drag out into your arm & into your jaw.
You are about 5 km from the hospital nearest your home.
4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’re able to make it that far.
5. You’ve been trained in CPR but the person teaching the course didn’t tell you how to perform it on yourself.
6. 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 &!who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly & very vigorously.
A deep breath should he taken before each cough and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputem from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every 2 seconds without let-up until help arrives or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart & keep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it to regain a normal rhythm.
In this way, heart attack victims can get help or to a hospital.
9. TELL AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE ABOUT THIS. IT COULD SAVE THEIR LIVES.
10. A cardiologist says: “If everyone who gets this email & kindly sends it to 10 people you can bet that we’ll save at least one life “
