how to help self at the time of heart attack

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.
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 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 conscious.

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.

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.

Kind regards

Chan Dollars
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