Safety MomentHeart Attack First Aid on YourselfMarch 2012

Symptoms of a Heart Attack

You start experiencing:• Severe pain in the chest• The pain starts to radiate out

into thearm and up into the jaw

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What is a HEART ATTACK

•you are upset or frustrated

•you are stressed

Heart Attack May Occur When:• you have an unusually hard day

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•you are tired

What is a HEART ATTACK

What is a HEART ATTACK

In Case of a Heart Attack

• you may be far away from the nearest hospital

• you may be trained in CPR

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and YET

• you may not know how to perform it on yourself

?

Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attackWithout help, they have only 10 seconds left before losing

consciousness

10 SECONDS ONLY

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What is a HEART ATTACK

STEP 1● Do not panic!● Start coughing REPEATEDLY and VERY

VIGOROUSLY!

Coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulatingThe squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm

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Perform Heart Attack FIRST AID ON YOURSELF

STEP 2● Take a deep breath before each cough● The cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep

inside the chest.

Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs

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Perform Heart Attack FIRST AID ON YOURSELF

In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital

STEP 3• Repeat breath and cough every 2 seconds• Don’t let it up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating

normally again.

Cough

Breathe

every 2 seconds

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Perform Heart Attack FIRST AID ON YOURSELF

• Memorize the three steps of the heart attack first aid on yourself!

• Share it with colleagues, friends and family. Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives!

• Don’t ever think that you are not prone to heart attack as your age is less than 25 or 30. Nowadays due to the changes in life style, heart attack is found among people of all age groups.

What Can You Do NOW?

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