Heart Attack!!!??

his article was taken from my friendster bulletin post, sent by one of my friend. it was written like this:

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 tires, 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 five miles from the hospital. Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be able to make it that far.

WHAT TO DO ???

You have been trained in CPR, but the person that conducted 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 ten seconds left before losing conscious.

Do not panic, but start coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, 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 hep 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.

TAKEN FROM

'JOURNAL OF GENERAL HOSPITAL ROCHESTER'

after reading that, i'd like to search about the 'JOURNAL OF GENERAL HOSPITAL ROCHESTER' for details...

the first article answered for my search is this one:

Important Notice: 'How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone'

Hundreds of people around the country have been receiving an e-mail message entitled "How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone." This article recommends a procedure to survive a heart attack in which the victim is advised to repeatedly cough at regular intervals until help arrives.

The source of information for this article was attributed to ViaHealth Rochester General Hospital. This article is being propagated on the Internet as individuals send it to friends and acquaintances - and then those recipients of the memo send it to their friends and acquaintances, and so on.

We can find no record that an article even resembling this was produced by Rochester General Hospital within the last 20 years. Furthermore, the medical information listed in the article can not be verified by current medical literature and is in no way condoned by this hospital’s medical staff. Also, both The Mended Hearts, Inc., a support organization for heart patients, and the American Heart Association have said that this information should not be forwarded or used by anyone.

Please help us combat the proliferation of this misinformation. We ask that you please send this e-mail to anyone who sent you the article, and please ask them to do the same.

Sincerely,

Rich Sensenbach
Web Development Coordinator
ViaHealth Rochester General Hospital
(585) 922-2124

the General Hospital Rochester said that there are no such article in their records within the last 20 years...

it is up to readers to read it or practice it for the sake of your live...there is no problem for a try i thought...

this is the link to General Hospital Rochester website/response