Let’s say it’s 6.15 p.m. and you’re driving home (alone of course), after an unusually hard day. 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 to your jaw. You are only about five kilometres from the hospital; unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it.

What can you do?

You’ve be trained in CPR but they neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself.

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE.

Without help, the person whose heart stops 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 every two seconds without letup 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 hospital.

TELL AS MANY PEOPLE ABOUT THIS, IT COULD SAVE THEIR LIVES!

From THE VICTOR CHANG CARDIAC RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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