Things You'll Need:
- CPR TRAINING
- PHONE FOR PARAMEDIC
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Step 1
Heart Attacks are not just for the elderly. No, many take place in the 45-50 age bracket and V-Fib Heart Attacks are sudden and deadly. The normal heart beat is disrupted and rapid uncoordinated twitching movements happen in the heart. Action must take place immediately and time is of the essence. Death can occur within minutes.
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Step 2
Ventricular Fibrillation or V-Fib Heart Attacks have a very low survival rate. The best chance of survival, and it is chance, is that someone is close at hand when it happens and can call on the phone, 911 or emergency, to get a paramedic (a person trained with first aid or other health care in the absence of physician, usually with the rescue unit of a local fire department) fast to the person with the V-Fib to perform an electrical discharge with direct current to the heart with a defibrillator (paddle type electrodes).
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Step 3
The most important step is performed by someone close at hand and within a two minute time frame of the cardiac arrest. CPR(cardiopulmonary resuscitation)must be administered until the paramedic arrives to use a defibrillator. I cannot stress enough the importance of everyone learning how to properly give CPR. My wife "died" of a V-Fib and was kept with circulation of oxygenated blood to the brain by my son, who was certified in CPR and kept the steady beat of the song "Staying Alive" (ironic) up with his hands flush with an up and down push on my wife's chest (area of Heart) for seven minutes until the paramedic came to the rescue with the defibrillator.
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Step 4
My wife was one of the lucky 1-2% of those that survived a V-Fib Heart Attack. Lucky, that someone was near to perform CPR until the paramedic arrived with the defibrillator. It is still luck or chance that the person has a heart that did not want to die.
