How to Survive A Heart Attack When Alone

Let's say it's 6:15pm and you're driving home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job. You're really tired, and frustrated…… YOU ARE REALLY STRESSED AND UPSET …. 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 five miles from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. WHAT TO DO ???

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

• The ability To Stay Calm
• The ability to act fast
• The ability to call for professional help

1. Maybe you have been trained in CPR, but the instructor did not inform you on how to perform CPR on yourself.
   First, you want to stay calm and do not panic. You only have about 10 seconds before you feel faint and lose consciousness, so do not waste any time.
2. Next, begin coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Tips & Warnings

• Use your cell phone immediately to call 911
• Do not try to find the nearest hospital
• Wait for an ambulance to arrive, do not try to go anywhere
• This article is not meant to replace any medical advice from a Doctor (MD), or Nurse (RN), and is only supplementary to their counsel.