email from JKS Weerasekera
7:25pm
and on your way home alone, after an unusually hard day on the job, tired, upset and frustrated.
Suddenly
you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that drag out into your
arm and up to your jaw. You are five km away from
the hospital nearest your home.
You don't know if you'll be able to
make it that far.
Trained in CPR, but the guy did
not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO SURVIVE?
The person whose heart
is beating improperly begins to feel faint, with only 10 seconds
left before losing consciousness.
Lie flat on the
ground!
Cough repeatedly, vigorously.
A deep breath before each cough,
the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when
producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
repeated without let-up until help
arrives.
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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
to regain a normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get
A
cardiologist says if
everyone who gets this email sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll save
at least one life.
