Alone and you need CPR - what to do

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

Found this in my inbox this am from a friend...

 

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Subject: Alone and you need CPR - what to do

 

Hope you will never have to use this!!! Always remember this, it may save your life!! The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually discovered this and did an in-depth study on it in our ICU. The two individuals that discovered this then did an article on it ... had it published. and have even had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes. It is very true and has and does work. It is called cough CPR.

 

A cardiologist says it's the truth...For your info. If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life. Read This...It could save your life!

 

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 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, 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!

 

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

 

BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

In view of the last few days I thought this info especially appropriate for this crowd. :+

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

RE: Alone and you need CPR -a follow-up

 

I received this in response to yesterday's post:

 

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Important Notice Regarding the article "How to Survive a Heart Attack When

Alone." Hundreds of people around the country have been receiving an e-mail

message entitled "How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone." This article

recommends a procedure to survive a heart attack in which the victim is

advised to repeatedly cough at regular intervals until help arrives. The

source of information for this article was attributed to ViaHealth Rochester

General Hospital. This article is being propagated on the Internet as

individuals send it to friends and acquaintances - and then those recipients

of the memo send it to their friends and acquaintances, and so on. We can

find no record that an article even resembling this was produced by

Rochester General Hospital within the last 20 years. Furthermore, the

medical information listed in the article can not be verified by current

medical literature and is in no way condoned by this hospital's medical

staff. Also, both The Mended Hearts, Inc., a support organization for heart

patients, and the American Heart Association have said that this information

should not be forwarded or used by anyone. Please help us combat the

proliferation of this misinformation. We ask that you please send this

e-mail to anyone who sent you the article, and please ask them to do the

same. Sincerely, Rich Sensenbach Web Development Coordinator ViaHealth

Rochester General Hospital (716-922-1024)

 

I apologize for passing along apparently dubious information.

 

:-(

[Guest Merlin]

One thing you can do if you think you are having a heart attack is take asprin. It will increase your chances of survival.

[Justice]

RE: Alone and you need CPR -a follow-up

 

No need to apologize TY,you meant well! I'm guilty of doing exactly the same thing! I've learned the hard way -- verify every e-mail rumor before even thinking of passing it on. Verifying these rumors is sometimes easier said then done. The good news is that a friend told me about [link]www.snopes.com[/link] after I sent him something that turned out to be false. It's a great way to verify the veracity of these rumors. When I saw your post, my immediate reaction was to go to snopes. When I got there, I used the search feature to search for heart attacks and here's what I found: [link]www.snopes.com/toxins/coughcpr.htm[/link].

[Guy Fawkes]

If I remember right, specifically take ONE aspirin. I know that we have at least one Doctor in the house, Any other suggestions?

[phage]

RE: Alone and you need CPR -a follow-up

 

Good rule of thumb: Any email that encourages you to forward to as many people as possible should be treated with suspicion. Very few legitimate sources do that.

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

RE: Alone and you need CPR -a follow-up

 

Thanks Justice for this very informative site. :-)