What are you to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone.
If you've already received this, it means people care about you ...
The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually discovered this
and did an in-depth study on it in our I.C.U. 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.
This procedure does work. It is called cough CPR. A cardiologist
says that this positively true! 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 C.P.R., but the guy that
taught the course, didn't tell you what to do if it happened to 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 is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint,
normally has 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
three seconds without let up, until help arrives, or until the
heart is felt to be beating normally again, and pain subsides.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs, and coughing
movements squeeze on the heart, and keeps the blood
circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also
helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack
victims can make it to a hospital. Tell as many other
people as possible about this, it could save their life !
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via theChapter
240S newsletter, 'AND THE BEAT GOES ON '
(reprint from 'The Mended Hearts' Inc. publication, Heart Response)

Urban legend:

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

jackspratt wrote:Urban legend:

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

Bugger, I've been practicing all night....

westerby wrote:

jackspratt wrote:Urban legend:

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

Bugger, I've been practicing all night....

Are you trying to give yourself a heart attack - so you can then see if it works

jackspratt wrote:Are you trying to give yourself a heart attack - so you can then see if it works

In your dreams, who's going to wind you up if I have a heart attack?

Don't worry westerby - you wouldn't be missed that much

So long as Rico, (and Ronny on occasion) hang around to give us wet, hand-wringing liberals a run for our money, the forum will stay in balance

jackspratt wrote:Don't worry westerby - you wouldn't be missed that much

No, I doubt if I would be.

Just Completed the ACLS course in Nov 2007 and its not included, just an urban myth,