1 Let’s say it’s 7.25 pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.
2 You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.
3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.
4 Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.
5 You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
Or the Emergency Number for YOUR country
6 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.
7 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.
8 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.
9 Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!
10 A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail, kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
I’d never heard of this! Thanks for posting 🙂
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Welcome Margaret – Please also see the second article about Women’s Heart attacks…
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You have to be careful with cough CPR. If you knew exactly what you were doing, this procedure might help save your life. But if you were to attempt it at the wrong time (because you misjudged the kind of cardiac event being experienced) or went about it in the wrong way, it could make matters worse. Read more at http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/coughcpr.asp#qLPspQRCzJ5SmGsA.99
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Thanks for that information Tina 😀
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You’re welcome, Chris 🙂
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Reblogged this on The Last Wave: An NDE, Ebook and commented:
This is life-saving information!
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Thanks Jennifer 😀
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I learned some things!
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Very good information to know… Thank you for sharing.
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I’ve just posted another one for Women 😀
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Reblogged this on Musings on Life & Experience and commented:
This is vital information that could save your life.
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Thanks Patricia 😀
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Great advice.
My hubby had to rush my father in law to the medics yesterday with pains… Thankfully it was muscular…
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Excellent advice. Great informational article. I reblogged it hope you don’t mind!
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That’s why I posted it Lily, to have it spread around 😀
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Reblogged this on In My Words and commented:
Very to know, great information.
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Reblogged this on cornfedcontessa and commented:
As a person with heart disease in my family, (my dad died at 56 of a heart attack) this is critical information. Thanks Chris!
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