Subject: How To Survive A Heart Attack, Received: from mercyhealth.com, The following message is from Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240's newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON (reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response). Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:33:38 -0600 A friend sent it to me and asked that it be shared. Good information to be kept in mind. Hope you never need it. 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 neglected to 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 in order.) Without help the person whose heart stops beating properly 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 veryvigorously. 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 phone and, between breaths, call for help. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives! > > From Health Cares, Roches

At 06:02 PM 6/14/00 EDT, you wrote: >Subject: How To Survive A Heart Attack, Received: from mercyhealth.com, The >following message is from Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via >Chapter 240's newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON (reprint from The Mended >Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response). >Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:33:38 -0600 > > A friend sent it to me and asked that it be shared. Good information to >be kept in mind. Hope you never need it. > > 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 >neglected to 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 in order.) Without help the person whose heart stops beating properly >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 veryvigorously. 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 phone and, between breaths, call for help. > >Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives! >> >> From Health Cares, Roches > >This was considered a hoax printed in the Gainesville Sun---not authentic!!!!!!