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Topic: Save a life - It could be your own.
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Bob Maar
(Maar stands for Maartini)
Posts: 28608
From: New York City & Newport, RI
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 03-13-2001 01:42 PM
The following information is from Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via chapter 240's newsletter AND THE BEAT GOES ON. ...(reprint from the Mended Hearts, Inc publication, Heart response) This may help save a life...Pass it on.Let's say it's 6:15 P.M. and your driving home (alone of cource), after an unusually hard day on the job. Your 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 will be able to make it that far. What can you do? You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught you the course, neglected to tell you how to perform it on yourself. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed 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 victems can help themselves by coughing repeately and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputem from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated every two seconds without let up until help arrives, or until the heart is to be beating normally again. Deep breath gets 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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John Pytlak
Film God
Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 03-14-2001 07:39 PM
Bayer Aspirin has had several radio and television ads talking about the use of aspirin in the event of a suspected heart attack. And "aspirin regimen" (to thin the blood and reduce the chance of a clot causing a heart attack or stroke) is also being advertised (most recently on TV ads with actor/dancer Ben Vereen). When my wife had symptoms that resembled a heart attack a few years ago, the first things the ambulance crew gave her were an aspirin and a nitroglycerine pill (fortunately, it wasn't a heart attack).BUT, aspirin can cause serious problems including internal bleeding and ulcers. Ironically, aspirin is one of the medications that likely precipitated my wife's recent bleeding ulcer. For now, she must not take any more aspirin. Always consult with your doctor before taking lots of aspirin on a regular basis or changing the way you take medications.
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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