Emergency CPR for Yourself
It should be far better to have prevented this easily as per my earlier post: Orthomolecular Solutions to Heart Disease however, should one not be aware of these simple nutritional solutions, and there are many, than the following could get you out of a emergency situation should it ever occur
See also:
Stale Food vs Fresh Food - a banned book!
What's a little cholesterol amongst friends?
Better safe than sorry...
Chris Gupta
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 who 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 seems to be in order. Without help, the person whose heart stops beating properly and who begins to 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 within the chest. A deep 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 keeps 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 about this, as it could save lives!
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
posted by Chris Gupta on Sunday October 12 2003
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/10/12/emergency_cpr_for_yourself.htm
