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From 14 February 2002 Issue

THIS MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE: 
CPR ON YOURSELF  

Let's say it is 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.
      
HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
    
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed 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.

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!

Source: kimkareno@netscape.net (kim/karen odonnell)

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