Hope Ive put this in the correct place.



Valuable Piece of information

Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're going 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 drag 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. 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 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!!

A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save at least one life.

Rather than sending jokes please.. contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person's life....If this message comes around you ...........more than once.....please don't get irritated......YOU need to be happy that you are being reminded of how to tackle....Heart attacks....AGAIN...

Penni Giles
Continuing Care Administrator
NHS Cornwall &
Isles of Scilly
Daromaba House
Liskeard PL14 3XA
Tel: 01579 335292
Fax: 01579 346989


Lets hope no one will need this !!

Thank you for the find miss happy this is information worth knowing

Yes thank you very much Miss Happy, will pass this information on

:Thank you:for posting this.

A friend of ours in the UK died over the weekend of a heart attack (51, non-smoker, non-drinker)- He has been on our minds a lot this weekend.

This information could save lives.

Good advice Miss Happy many thanks from all of us.

Hi, this is an urban myth email which has been circulating the internet since 1999.

This text is from the Cornwall &
Isles of Scilly NHS Trust website

Cardiac arrest
An email is currently circulating the internet that gives advice about stopping a cardiac arrest by coughing. This advice is not endorsed by this PCT. Please see Resuscitation UK for more information.


This link can give more details
[url:1ic8c56u]http:
//en.
wikipedia.
org/wiki/Cough_CPR[/url:1ic8c56u]

As I was reading it I thought "
someone is have a laugh here"
and now I've got to the bottom! I see I was right. Farscape

Super information well done


Mike

Thank you Miss happy