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cmo
01/21/08, 03:49 PM
From a forwarded email by JLK:

A serious note about heart attacks

HEART ATTACK PROCEDURE: (THIS IS NOT A JOKE!)

Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.

Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this...It
could save your life!!

Let's say it's 6.15 pm and you're driving home . 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. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not 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, without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly 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, 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!! Yours too!

racz_jay25
01/22/08, 02:14 AM
I hope, I'll remember 'bout this if it happens to me.. thanks for this one cmo!

dokerik
06/22/08, 05:05 PM
This has no scientific basis though.....but if you think it will help you then do it.

ayumie
06/25/08, 05:15 PM
what other things can we do dokerik :confused:

trailblazerstravelntours
06/25/08, 06:44 PM
Thanks, cmo. This is one good post. May I copy and and email this to my family and friends? :COOL0020:

neyx
06/25/08, 08:39 PM
A really helpful post :D

dokerik
06/26/08, 08:01 AM
[quote=ayumie;24826]what other things can we do dokerik :confused:[/quoute


Have you seen Casino Royale? (James Bond movie). When he was poisoned, he ran to his car, got his aed (automatic external defibrillator) a very small, portable device....that's what we need if we're having a heart attack! But we should use it when the heart is in a "fibrillation state" not when it's a "flat line". Hehehee So, the ER scenes that we see in movie wherein the guy is "shocked" when they see a flat line is totally erroneous:devil:(sorry Mods OT :bgigrin1:hehehe)

dokerik:yayks: