Heart Attack Procedure: Women should also know that not every heart attack symptom is going to
be the left arm hurting.

Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. Sixty percent of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.  

Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better off we'll be. a Cardilogist says if everyone who gets this email sends it to 10
people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this ... It could save your life!!

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 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. 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!!

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

Hugs,
Ciara

This is invaluable information, and I wish I would have known it a little over 4 years ago to pass along to my Father.

My Dad died not from a heart attack, but from resulting brain damage...he had the heart attack in his car, pulled over and dialed 911, he lost consciousness before he could tell the 911 operator where he was...it took close to 40 minutes to find him, and when they did they initially listed him as a body, they did manage to shock him 6 times and bring him back...the cardiologist said there was no permanent damage to his heart, the nuerologist said the damage to his brain was irreversable and that if he lived he would be able to "blink and piss"...not exactly a life for a guy that wrestled aligators for his 70th birthday...we removed him from life support and he died just over 8 hours later having seizures during the entire 8 hours it took him to die.

I wish he would have known what you have posted here, but by your sharing perhaps many lives will be saved, thanks for caring.

the coughing part is somewhat accurate. Ask a nurse. It may not buy you a lot of time, but it does pump more blood to the heart.

Hugs,
Ciara

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