A heart attack is a medical
emergency. A heart attack usually occurs when a blood clot blocks blood flow to
the heart. Without blood, tissue loses oxygen and dies.
Normally heart attack occurs when
you're alone, most people with heart attack dies after lacking medical
assistance. Since most people don't know the warning signs of the disease, can
possibly dies immediately after the disease occurrence. The most used first aid
for people with heart attack is CPR abbreviated as 'Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation'
CPR is a medical technique for
reviving someone whose heart has stopped beating by pressing on their chest and
breathing into their mouth. For more clarification about CPR click HERE.
The disadvantage of this CPR
technique is that you can't do on yourself, it needs other people to serve you.
On this article I will show you special tips for serving yourself when you have
heart attack. Before that you should first understand the risk signs of heart
attack, though some people with heart attack can die without any noticeable
signs. To understand the warning signs of heart attack CLICK HERE.
HOW TO SERVE YOURSELF
During heart attack you might see
the abnormal heart beats, dizziness and other abnormal conditions but if you
see these signs you are on the way to lose consciousness. The time between
signs and losing consciousness and even death is very short, it is the matter
of seconds.
The following are special tips
that will help to serve yourself from heart attack when you're own
(a) Cough deeply continuous until
you give out sputum.
*Sputum is a mixture of saliva and
mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract, typically as a result of infection
or other disease and often examined microscopically to aid medical diagnosis.
(b) After every cough take a deep
breathing, do continuously coughing and deep breathing until you remove sputum
from your chest. Also until your heart beats become normal and until you get
assistance from other people.
NOTE:
Deep breathing help to supply
oxygen in the lungs and deep coughing help to control the heart to allow blood
circulation to continue as usual and recover normal heart beats. These
techniques will help patients with heart attack to reach nearby hospitals and
get medical assistance.
Forceful coughing (deep coughing)
increases pressure in the chest, which helps maintain blood flow. A conscious,
responsive person, by coughing forcefully and repetitively, might be able to
keep enough blood flowing to the brain to remain conscious for a minute or two
until the arrhythmia is treated.
Many people survive heart attacks,
although they can cause lasting, serious heart damage. And sometimes, a heart
attack can trigger cardiac arrest, during which the heart goes into a very
fast, abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia) or stops beating altogether. If
cardiac arrest does occur, the person will lose consciousness within seconds.
* Rhythm means a strong, regular
repeated pattern of movement or sound. An abnormal heart rhythm is when your
heart beats too fast, slow, or irregularly. This is also called an arrhythmia.
For most heart attacks that
trigger abnormal rhythm Coughing technique can help to restore normal heart
functioning and patient can reach medical assistance and survive. For heart
attack that do not trigger an arrhythmia (abnormal rhythm) coughing would not
help because a person will be unconscious (full cardiac arrest) and cannot
cough.
Though Cough technique can help
most of heart attack patients, it is important for all of us to learn how to
use CPR technique, a method that involves pressing on someone chest and
breathing into his/her mouth in order to restore normal heart beat (For someone
whose heart has stopped beating).
CPR technique can restore normal
heart beat for all kind of heart attacks, those that trigger abnormal rhythm
and others that not. If you want to know more about CPR technique CLICK HERE.
CPR 032 flickr photo by clooney_97 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-SA) license
(Performing CPR on toy)
IMPORTANT
Every day we lose our fellow
brothers and sisters from heart attack, and most of them didn't know how to
handle the situation. We can serve many lives of our fellow brothers and
sisters by sharing these special tips of handling heart attack when they are
alone. These tips will help them to reach hospital and get medical assistance,
also all of us we need to learn how to use CPR technique and encouraging our
family, friends, and neighbors to do so as well.
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Posted by: Lusubilo A. Mwaijengo
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