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To avoid succumbing to heart attack symptoms: 

Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. 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. What
> > can you do?
> > You've been trained in CPR but the guy that taught the
> > course neglected to 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, this article seemed to be in order. Without help, the person
> > whose heart stops beating properly 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.
> > Deep breaths 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 other people as possible about this, it could
> > save their lives!

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