Did you know there is self CPR for when you are alone and get a Heart Attack!?!


Question: Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order. 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. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives!
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter 'AND THE BEAT GOES ON .'
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
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Answers: Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order. 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. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives!
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter 'AND THE BEAT GOES ON .'
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. publication, Heart Response)
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Since I have been a critical care RN for many years, this has actually happened to a rare few of my patients. Coughing and deep breaths minutely change the negative pressure within the chest cavity to produce minor pressures on the heart and lungs to actually produce your described effects. Although, not everyone can do this, since they faint first from either hypotension or cardiac arrhythmias. I have seen this happen especially on pts. with cardiac arrhythmias in ICU/CCU and it does work, however temporarily. Most medical personnel do not accept this theory and believe that it is a crock. Probably because they have not seen it done or disbelieve in it. I'm convinced that it does work.

ROFL!!! That is the biggest load of S H I T I have ever heard. The whole concept is just ridiculous!!

That type of thing could stop an arrhythmia. Bearing down and taking deep breaths etc. can cause a vagal response that could stop an irregular beat before it became lethal. But if your arrhythmia is being caused by something that is lethal anyway, like a heart attack or cardiomyopathy you are probably SOL.

CPR is by definition done on someone whose heart has stopped beating. So you obviously could not sit next to yourself and pump your own chest to keep oxygen going to the brain.

This Patient Guide is written for the loved ones of heart patients who are dealing with the short-term stress that comes with a test, procedure or recent diagnosis of heart disease. It explains why support is so important to a loved one with heart disease. It also offers practical strategies on how to support a loved one while also taking care of yourself.





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