Important info / Self CPR

[willy]

Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order.​

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, 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!​

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[jeffmo]

sorry to say but this is a story that was making it's rounds on the net a while back and it's false.I've heard this discussed many times in training classes.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/coughcpr.asp

 

[willy]

I read that and now realize that it was an experimental, at best thing and that the info could be dangerous for many.

So read the link and I will be taking it off the site in a week after everyone see's it

 

[randlemanboater]

I read the whole Snopes article. It says that "coughing CPR" is a real proceedure, but it is done with a doctor standing there with you who knows when and how to do it during specific cardiac emergencies.

It also says that you can make a heart attack worse, to the point of turning a survivable event into one that kills you if done wrong or at the wrong time.

Bottom line is, if you think you are having a heart attack, call 911, take an asprin, sit still.