X-Message-Number: 25854
From: "marta sandberg" <>
Subject: : How to survive a stroke/heart attack.  Please pass on
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:28:03 +0800

These three simple questions can be a life saver.  Please read this and then 
pass it on to your friends.

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:

Ask the individual to smile.

Ask him or her to raise both arms.

Ask the person to speak a simple sentence.

If he or she has trouble with any of these tasks, call 9-1-1 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 10people,  
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 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. 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 of 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!!

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