How to SURVIVE Heart Attack !!. Review on Knowing More About Diseases / Illness

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I have read this article in one of the news paper and thought it's worth sharing with my fellow MSians. All you doctors here, please let us all know your comments. These are the tips that I read in the news paper and I am collating it.

On the lighter side

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I managed to find the correct category after SOOOOO long. otherwise till now I had to add that'dreaded' extra line in my reviews about the wrong category:-)

As you might have guessed and as the heading suggests, HEART ATTACK is one of the DEADLIEST disease which is causing havoc now a days. How often do you hear people saying that,

'Oh, he was just 30 years old, died of a heart attack'

'He was so young, but died of a heart attack'

'He was so healthy, but died yesterday due to heart attack'

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Well, there was a time when people use to say, only old age people would die of an heart attack. But not anymore. Heart attack is no more a'OLD AGE SPECIAL'!

Anybody can get it and at ANY TIME! And more importantly when you get heart attack, you would hardly get any time to react to it(fight against it). It's as if a KING KOBRA making FINAL ASSAULT on its prey!  One byte and there we go!

So the very very important thing here is to use that SHORT time available in the best possible way you could to live longer and enjoy the life.

Let us say you are driving home(alone of course), after An unusually hard day at the office. You are 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(or any one for that matter of fact).Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far!

What to do? No time to think as well!

HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE?

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, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.

This is known as Cough-CPR or Self- CPR

Please keep every one informed about this. This might save life of your beloved!

PS:  All you doctors reading this review, please leave your comments and thoughts about this. This might help all of our MSians.

Chill out

Amith