HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE

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 (8kms) 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..!!


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

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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.