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November
20, 2006
A dear friend
sent me the following, an email forward he'd received, asking if it was
a valid thing to do in an emergency.
What
are you to do if you have a heart attack while you are alone. If you've
already received this, it means people care about you ... The Johnson
City Medical Center staff actually discovered this and did an in-depth
study on it in our ICU The two individuals that discovered this then
did an article on it .. had it published and have even had it incorporated
into ACLS and CPR classes.
Let's
say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home (alone of course), after
an usually 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,
didn't tell you what to do if it happened to 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 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 very 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!
I had
heard of it, but didn't know anything about it, so went looking in my
favorite place to learn about such email stories. Snopes.com
is the perfect place to start such a search because they usually have
the full story.
This one
turns out to be a mix of myth and fact. Look
at the Snopes page for their full explanation.
Origins:
This helpful e-mail began its life on the Internet in June 1999, and
in the spring of 2004, a Powerpoint presentation of it began circulating
online. Those kindhearted souls who started it on its way likely had
no inkling the advice they were forwarding could potentially be harmful
to someone undergoing a heart attack, but that is indeed the case.
If
you knew exactly what you were doing, this procedure might help save
your life. If, however, you were to attempt cough CPR at the wrong time
(because you misjudged the kind of cardiac event being experienced)
or went about it in the wrong way, it could make matters worse.
Dr. Richard
O. Cummins, Seattle's director of emergency cardiac care, explains that
cough CPR raises the pressure in the chest just enough to maintain some
circulation of oxygen-containing blood and help enough get to the brain
to maintain consciousness for a prolonged period. But cough CPR should
be used only by a person about to lose consciousness, an indication
of cardiac arrest, he cautions. It can be dangerous for someone having
a heart attack that does not result in cardiac arrest. Such a person
should call for help and then sit quietly until help arrives, he says.
Rather
than risk killing yourself with cough CPR, those experiencing a heart
attack should heed the advice of physicians the world over — down
a couple of Aspirin as an emergency remedy. Doctors believe that during
the early stages of a heart attack, Aspirin — which is known to
prevent blood platelets from sticking together — can prevent a
clot from getting bigger. In 1991 Dr. Michael Vance, president of
the American Board of Emergency Medicine, recommended that people who
think they are having a heart attack should "Call 911, then take
an Aspirin."
Some of
the things not mentioned on this page are also important considerations.
The most
common first time response to the symptoms of a heart attack is, unfortunately,
denial. Unless the attack is simply overwhelming, most people will not
recognize the symptoms or take appropriate action quickly - if ever. Even
some people who have survived a heart attack and understand the symptoms
- and the consequences of inaction - are paralyzed by this denial, often
until it is too late. That is one of the major reasons for thousands of
otherwise unnecessary deaths each year from cardiac disease.
Another
problem with this self CPR is the fact that continued deep breathing will
lead to hyperventilation and ADD to the tendency of the person to fall
unconscious. While this may reduce the load on the heart and may help
in some situations, it would be a disaster if you were driving a car at
the moment!
So, what
can you do to prepare yourself to deal with a heart attack? Why not prevent
it in the first place?
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