Hi group! I never send FWD mail period. This one seemed an exception...vDog
> HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE > > If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that > we'll save at least one life. > > Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving 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 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 guy that taught the course neglected to tell > you > how to perform it on yourself. Since many people are alone when they > suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order. > > 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, 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. > > 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. > > > From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s > newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, > Inc. > publication, Heart Response) The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 24 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
