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Health - Self C P R

Source of Recipe

From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter


Recipe Introduction

It is very true. It has worked and does work. It may also mean all the difference in the world to someone.

List of Ingredients

Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after an usually 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, didn't tell you what to do if it happened to yourself.




Recipe

How to Survive A Heart Attack When Alone

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order.
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 producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about very 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.