Personal Wellbeing ~ 20 Heart attack - self CPR

By Barefoot Medic

Driving home at 7pm, tired and frustrated after a hard day. You suddenly experience severe chest pains, radiating out into your arm and up into your jaw.

You’re about 5 miles from the nearest hospital and you don’t think you could make it that far.

You are trained in CPR but were not taught how to perform it on yourself:-

How to survive a heart attack

Most people will be alone when they suffer a heart attack. When your heart is beating irregularly and you begin to feel faint, you probably have about ten seconds before losing consciousness.

However, you can help yourself by repeatedly coughing vigorously while breathing deeply every two seconds until your heartbeat returns to normal; or until help arrives.

Explanation:

Deep breathing gets oxygen into your lungs, and coughing movements squeeze the heart to keep blood circulating, the effect is similar to CPR and helps the heart to regain its normal rhythm. In this way, a heart attack victim can get to a hospital, and maximize their chance of survival.

If you tell your friends it could save their lives.

I have not tried it on myself so cannot say it is true. But, if you are in that situation what have you got to lose?

If you pass it on and it saves a life; you are a hero. If it fails who will know?