How to survive a heart attack on your own (true or false info?)

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......U need to be happy that you are
being reminded of how to tackle....Heart attacks....AGAIN...



Cardiovascular Strategy Facilitator
A/Senior Executive Officer
Department of Health Promotion