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How to Survive a Heart Attack Alone

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 that 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 seemed to be 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. The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. And a cough must be repeated about every 2 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!

* From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON ... (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)

 

Current Event - FYI


Alternative Medicine Lunch Meeting - May 19, 2005

Dr Frank Noonan, DO, principal of Central PA Integrative Medicine, will be speaking at The Delaware Conference in Newark, DE, on the subject of Alternative Treatment for Heart Disease.  Dr. Noonan runs an Alternative Medicine Clinic in the Lancaster area and has been practicing family and alternative medicine in Myerstown for 28 years.


Dr. Noonan is the keynote lunch speaker at this all-day Conference for accountants.  If you have an interest in attending only the lunch to hear him speak, please let Angel know.  She can arrange a special ticket for you to attend and pay for only the lunch.  There will be a Q&A following the presentation and Dr. Noonan will be available after the Q&A to speak with individuals.

 

Dr. Noonan does phone consultations for around $60.  If you would like to set up an appointment with him directly, go to the Physician Reference Guide and scroll down to Pennsylvania for his contact information.

 

    Also see:  The Link Between THYROID and Heart Disease

Also see:  What Causes HEART Disease

 

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