>A cardiologist says it's the trust...Heart Attack For your info. If
>everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll
>save at least one life. 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 who 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,heartattack victims can get to a hospital.
>
>Tell  as many other people as possible about this. It could save their
>lives!!
>
>Ashish Vassa
>GE Medical Systems - Information Technologies
>800 East Business Center Drive
>Mount Prospect IL 60056
>Phone: 847 704 8668
>E-mail: spam_OUTAshish.VassaTakeThisOuTmed.ge.com
>

> IMHO, this doesn't need to be on the piclist, but if you must, please
> *at least* mark it properly ([OT]:), delete the enormous amount of
> addresses and forward material, and VERIFY the information.
>
> The GE website doesn't appear to mention any 'med.ge.com'.  You can read
> about this (and variants of this) forward here:
> http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blcpr.htm?once=true&
>
> Suffice to say that it is not completely urban legend - read the above
> site for specific details.  If it were useful to use on a wide basis, it
> would be taught in CPR, but people respond differently, and you can
> spend your remaining time in better, more effective ways than this method.
>
> -Adam
>
> sunil barot wrote:
>
> >   Note: forwarded message attached.
> >
> Yada yada yada - a list of people who are unable to avoid forwarding
>  "super important information you can't live without and you'll die, or
> or others will die, or you cat will spit on you if you don't forward it"
>
> >A cardiologist says it's the trust...Heart Attack For your info. If
> >everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we'll
> >save at least one life. 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 who 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,heartattack victims can get to a hospital.
> >
> >Tell  as many other people as possible about this. It could save their
> >lives!!
> >
> >Ashish Vassa
> >GE Medical Systems - Information Technologies
> >800 East Business Center Drive
> >Mount Prospect IL 60056
> >Phone: 847 704 8668
> >E-mail: .....Ashish.VassaKILLspam@spam@med.ge.com
> >
>
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