Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: capt. apathy on January 24, 2003, 09:13:16 PM
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Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home
(alone of course), after an unusually hard day on the
job. You're really tired, upset and frustrated.
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 about five miles from the
hospital nearest your home; unfortunately you don't
know if you'll be able to make it that far. What can
you do? You've been trained in CPR but the guy that
taught the course neglected to tell you how to perform
it on yourself. Since many people are alone when they
suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order.
Without help, the person whose heart stops beating
properly 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. The cough must be deep and
prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside
the chest. And a cough must be repeated about every 2
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
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or lick ur fingertips and stick em in the nearest wall socket.
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Totally neglects the situation in which a searing pain in the chest prevents a deep breath much less a forcefull action like coughing. :rolleyes:
Sounds like the start of another urban myth. :rolleyes:
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No Maverick. I have seen this information posted in my RC club flying field, often there are old people, likely hear attack victims, there alone flying their models and I wouldnt think the club would post a joke especially when the note was written by an MD and in a situation where our club friends lives are possibly in real danger, it also reccomended to chew on an aspirin which is also proven to help even during hear attacks.
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A heart attack can drop you in an instant too, nothing you can do about it, but if I have one and can remember, I will try to cough like hell.
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yet another use for medical weed too. that would get ya cough'n:D
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this is another reason why im afraid to die at age 100:mad:
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Good advice. Even better advice is not to eat meat. Bacon, steaks, pork chops, 2% and whole milk, eggs, lard and other animal products clog up blood vessels with plaque and cholesterol.
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Just start skydiving.
All worries about old age disappear. One way or another.
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As a Paramedic for the last 17 years and a cop for the last 21 years, the best way to survive is to dial 911 ASAP. (outside the USA, call your local EMS number) I, and my breathren Paramedics, would rather run to 100 false chest pain calls than to one real, cardiac arrest/ code blue.
My worst call.... Christmas day 1987, grandpa got up to go open presants with all the family downstairs, thought it was 'heartburn'.... dropped dead in front of the family.
I had A LOT of sleepless nights over that one.
The above info is good in one situation out of 20, if that.
ACTIVATE 911 ASAP, PLEASE....................... PLEASE
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Originally posted by davidpt40
Good advice. Even better advice is not to eat meat. Bacon, steaks, pork chops, 2% and whole milk, eggs, lard and other animal products clog up blood vessels with plaque and cholesterol.
Yeah tell that to my Grandfather & grandmother 100 and 96 years old living on thier own still. We have a big Jersey Farm had bacon & eggswere served every morning, only thing they didn't do was smoke. Its all in the genes bad genes you can eat like rabbit run everyday exercise die at 25years. good genes eat like pigs and live until only god knows. Great gamma lived to be 103, so who knows with todays meds.