Re: Fw: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

[Guest guest]

This has been going around the Internet for a few years.

If I had ten seconds, I would be reaching for a phone to dial 91 . . .

.. , not coughing. Gagging maybe. Not coughing.

This post falls almost within the realm of urban legend. See:

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/coughcpr.htm

for details.

You will find links to the Red Cross and American Heart Association

positions on " Cough CPR " , and in both cases, they do not endorse it.

Remember, we are not a medical site. We should not give medical advice.

This is an example of an email that has been traveling the Internet for

5 years, and gives potentially bad advice. Don't get me wrong - If I was

having what I though was a heart attack, and I had someone near me

dialing 911, I would be coughing like heck!

Bobby

Asst. Spoiler

NSR on Flecainide

Atlanta

Shelby Kurzius wrote:

>Subject: FW: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

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>HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

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>>From F. Rochman MD

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>If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll

>save at least one life. 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.

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[Guest guest]

This has been going around the Internet for a few years.

If I had ten seconds, I would be reaching for a phone to dial 91 . . .

.. , not coughing. Gagging maybe. Not coughing.

This post falls almost within the realm of urban legend. See:

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/coughcpr.htm

for details.

You will find links to the Red Cross and American Heart Association

positions on " Cough CPR " , and in both cases, they do not endorse it.

Remember, we are not a medical site. We should not give medical advice.

This is an example of an email that has been traveling the Internet for

5 years, and gives potentially bad advice. Don't get me wrong - If I was

having what I though was a heart attack, and I had someone near me

dialing 911, I would be coughing like heck!

Bobby

Asst. Spoiler

NSR on Flecainide

Atlanta

Shelby Kurzius wrote:

>Subject: FW: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

>

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>

>HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

>

>>From F. Rochman MD

>

>If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll

>save at least one life. 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.

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

This has been going around the Internet for a few years.

If I had ten seconds, I would be reaching for a phone to dial 91 . . .

.. , not coughing. Gagging maybe. Not coughing.

This post falls almost within the realm of urban legend. See:

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/coughcpr.htm

for details.

You will find links to the Red Cross and American Heart Association

positions on " Cough CPR " , and in both cases, they do not endorse it.

Remember, we are not a medical site. We should not give medical advice.

This is an example of an email that has been traveling the Internet for

5 years, and gives potentially bad advice. Don't get me wrong - If I was

having what I though was a heart attack, and I had someone near me

dialing 911, I would be coughing like heck!

Bobby

Asst. Spoiler

NSR on Flecainide

Atlanta

Shelby Kurzius wrote:

>Subject: FW: HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

>

>-----

>

>HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK ALONE

>

>>From F. Rochman MD

>

>If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll

>save at least one life. 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.

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

I read thru the site Bobby pointed to about coughing and heart attacks. For

those who haven't, the advice boils down to: call 911 and take an aspirin,

preferably chewing the aspirin so it gets into the blood stream sooner.