[Myth] How To Survive A Heart Attack When Alone

This is a hoax, has not been mentioned in medical sciences and is refuted by the cardiologist. please see the following posts for clarification. - medpal

Let's say its 6.15p m 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 adiate 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, heartattack victims can get to a hospital.

Good One, everyone should know about this. I remember my great grandpa doing this to him when i was a kid.

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Saiyan's Signature:

Dont know if its 100% true , perhaps Medpal can shed some light on this.

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nice work dude.

btw on FE and TE with ppl mostly in their teens or early 20s, what do you think is a chance that any of us get a heart attack.

u will never know dude

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Saiyan's Signature:

but u dont get a heart-attack in young age, normally....

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Dogbert's Signature:

normally u don't, but my classmate, did get one, he had Blood Pressure though, not sure if thats the cause. Anyways, its very rare.

But its better u know it, you can help another person na

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Saiyan's Signature:

Yups... Thats de point... Any knowledge gained can be useful...

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Dogbert's Signature:

thats very true, i can deffo vouch for that

This is a big Myth an Urban Legen, proved absolutely wrong by medical specialists.

The email believed to be origined in 1999 from a cradiologist.

But in my studies of basic medical sciences during undergrad years and during post grad years i Have never heard of this kind of manouvre.

The so called coughing and deep breathing is termed "COUGH CPR" in cardiology and it is advised only in case of abnormal heart beat arrest that too in supervised indoor facilities.

By deep breathing and coughing we stimulate our vagus nerve which supplies the Diaphragm and helps regulate the Cardiac beat rate.

It is not at all helpfull in routing Heart attacks or Acute Myocardial Infarction as we call in medical sciences.



AMI (heart attack) occurs due to decreased supply of blood to the heart muscles so that there is ischaemia of the muscles which causes following symptoms to appear :

Chest Pain
Compression sensation of chest
Pain radiating to Left shoulder and arm
Breathlessness

and if more severe
Unconsciousness and Cardiac Arrest.


Proper Steps to Take when such situation arises :
Call emergency number immediately. (100 and 108 for India, 911 for USA, 08 and 112 for other countries)

Ask for help.

If you are nearby and you see someone sufferring and if you know the CPR start it immediately on the unconscious patient (Not on conscious patient)

Let fresh air come in.

Loosen the cloths of the person.

There are medicines which can help for short period of time but I am not spelling them here for the sake of patient safety.

As the heart attack if severe and renders patient helpless it can turn out to be fatal, so if you are one of the high risk person then get regular checkup and follow your physician`s advise to avoid emergency.

Hope FEzens will spread the true information and stop the wrong message going forward.

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