Post by pottsy189 on Jan 19, 2005 17:46:02 GMT
Subject: Heart Attack or Stroke
This information may save a life.
Is It a Stroke?
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster for the
stroke victim. A stroke victim may suffer brain damage when
people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say any bystander can recognize a stroke by asking
Three simple questions:
This might be a lifesaver if we can remember the three questions!
1. Ask the individual to smile.
2. Ask him or her to raise both arms.
3. Ask the person to speak a simple sentence.
If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 911
immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
After discovering that a group of non-medical volunteers could
identify facial weakness, arm weakness and speech problems,
researchers urged the general public to learn the three questions.
They presented their conclusions at the American Stroke
Association's annual meeting last February. Widespread use
of this test could result in prompt diagnosis and treatment of
the stroke and prevent brain damage.
Is It A Heart Attack?
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to
10 people, you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
Read this... It could save your life!!
Let's say it's 6:15 PM. 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.
You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course
did not 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,
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 every 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 people as possible about this. It could save their
lives!!
This information may save a life.
Is It a Stroke?
Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster for the
stroke victim. A stroke victim may suffer brain damage when
people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say any bystander can recognize a stroke by asking
Three simple questions:
This might be a lifesaver if we can remember the three questions!
1. Ask the individual to smile.
2. Ask him or her to raise both arms.
3. Ask the person to speak a simple sentence.
If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 911
immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.
After discovering that a group of non-medical volunteers could
identify facial weakness, arm weakness and speech problems,
researchers urged the general public to learn the three questions.
They presented their conclusions at the American Stroke
Association's annual meeting last February. Widespread use
of this test could result in prompt diagnosis and treatment of
the stroke and prevent brain damage.
Is It A Heart Attack?
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to
10 people, you can bet that at least one life will be saved.
Read this... It could save your life!!
Let's say it's 6:15 PM. 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.
You have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the course
did not 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,
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 every 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 people as possible about this. It could save their
lives!!