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How to survive a heart attack when alone?

Let’s say it’s 6:15 PM. And You’re driving home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. You’re really tired and frustrated….

You are really stressed and upset. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that radiates out into your arm and up to your jaw.

You are only five miles from the hospital nearest to your home.
Unfortunately you don’t know if you will be able to make it that far.

What to do?

You have been trained in CPR but the guy that conducted the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself!!!

How to survive a heart attack?

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 pain has only 10 seconds left, before losing consciousness.

What to do?

Answer:

Do not panic, but start 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.
A breath and 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 breathing gets oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeezes the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure also helps it to regain normal rhythm.
In this way heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

--Article published on No.240 of journal of General Hospital, Rochester.