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Nice one.. This may come handy one day.. Who knows.. The way things are going in this country one could have heart attack.....

fuelsaver: Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're going home (alone of course), ...after an unusually hard day on the job. You're reall...y tired, upset and frustrated. Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles (8kms) from the hospital nearest your home. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself..!!

NOW 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. 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.

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None of this is going to stop damage to the heart muscles and it's wrong to assume that there is "only 10 seconds left before losing consciousness". A lot of times the first sign of a heart attack is death. Other times, people have heart attacks and don't even know it. And besides, when a heart attack does strike there's usually so much pain in the chest that it's hard to do anything, talk less of coughing and taking deep breaths. The advice you've given might be useful if there are palpitations (a sensation of a heart beat, irregular or not), but I'm afraid won't be too helpful in the case of a full blown heart attack.

The best thing to do is to get yourself down to the nearest proper hospital right away. To tell the truth, in Nigeria where there's isn't an emergency response team and there isn't an acute cardiac unit, the chance of survival after a heart attack is mostly down to luck, and most hospitals haven't a clue of how to properly treat a heart attack according to modern guidelines.

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None of this is going to stop damage to the heart muscles and it's wrong to assume that there is "only 10 seconds left before losing consciousness". A lot of times the first sign of a heart attack is death. Other times, people have heart attacks and don't even know it. And besides, when a heart attack does strike there's usually so much pain in the chest that it's hard to do anything, talk less of coughing and taking deep breaths. The advice you've given might be useful if there are palpitations (a sensation of a heart beat, irregular or not), but I'm afraid won't be too helpful in the case of a full blown heart attack.

The best thing to do is to get yourself down to the nearest proper hospital right away. To tell the truth, in Nigeria where there's isn't an emergency response team and there isn't an acute cardiac unit, the chance of survival after a heart attack is mostly down to luck, and most hospitals haven't a clue of how to properly treat a heart attack according to modern guidelines.

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