how to survive heart attack

Subject: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
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>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.
>
>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 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 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!
>
> >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) BE A FRIEND
>AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AND
>FAMILIES.