How to Survive a Heart Attack when Alone

Let's say its 6.15pm and you are going home alone of course, after an unusually hard day on the job/work. You are extremely tired, distress and frustrated. Abruptly 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 from the hospital nearest your home. Unluckily you don't know if you will 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 you’re alone

Since a lot of 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. Though, these victims can help themselves by coughing frequently 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 aid 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 sufferers can get to a hospital. Rather than sharing jokes please contribute by sharing this which can save a person's life.