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Rescue Breathing Drowning

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1. Get Help Notify someone, a lifeguard, or a person who is an authority (police, security guard, etc). If not, ask someone to call 911. If you are alone, follow the steps below.

2. Move the Person Take the person out of the water.

3. Check for Breathing Place your ear next to the persons mouth and nose. Do you feel air on your cheek? Look to see if the persons chest is moving.

4. If the Person is Not Breathing, Check Pulse Check the persons pulse for 10 seconds.

5. If There is No Pulse, Start CPR Carefully place person on back. For an adult or child, place the heel of one hand on the center of the chest at the nipple line. You can also push with one hand on top of the other. For an infant, place two fingers on the breastbone.

For an adult or child, press down about 2 inches. Make sure not to press on ribs. For an infant, press down about 1 and 1/2 inches. Make sure not to press on end of breastbone. Do 30 chest compressions, at the rate of 100 per minute or more. Let the chest rise completely between pushes.

Check to see if the person has started breathing.

6. Repeat if Person Is Still Not Breathing If youve been trained in CPR, you can now open the airway by tilting the head back and lifting the chin. Pinch the nose of the victim closed. Take a normal breath, cover the victims mouth with yours to create an airtight seal, and then give 2 one-second breaths as you watch for the chest to rise. Give 2 breaths followed by 30 chest compressions. Continue this cycle of 30 compressions and 2 breaths until the person starts breathing or emergency help arrives.

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Top 10 Heart Attack Symptoms You Should NOT Ignore


By Lui B.

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Heart attack doesnt always start with chest pain and ends with chest pain. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of other symptoms that can alarm you for an impending heart attack. Sadly, most of these symptoms are either taken for granted or dismissed as nothing out of ordinary. Last year, for example, a landmark study by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Institute found that 95 percent of women whod had heart attacks reported experiencing symptoms in the weeks and months before the attack but the symptoms werent the expected chest pain, so they went unrecognized. To help you out, here are the top 10 heart attack symptoms that are commonly ignored today: 1. Sense of Being out of yourself Commonly experienced by older adults as just didnt seem like themselves kind of feeling, symptoms can range from fatigue, palpitations to other more vague symptoms like memory loss and decreased alertness. Anything out of ordinary should alarm their loved ones. 2. Rapid heart rate Known in medical world as ventricular tachycardia, this rapid heart beat can last for a few seconds or longer. People who experienced this felt like they joined a marathon when actually they didnt. More often than not, a rapid heart rate can occur even during resting state. 3. Flu-like symptoms Flu-like symptoms like clammy, sweaty skin, along with feeling light-headed, fatigued, and weak might not alarm you but if its not aggravated by high body temperature or feeling of heaviness in your chest area is present, you better let your doctor check it because it might be a heart attack waiting for its right time.

4. Insomnia Though experts are not yet equipped with explanation, those who got heart attack have reported to experience sleeplessness, anxiety, or a feeling of an impending doom months or days before the attack. Of course, those who have been insomniacs for quite a long time already are out of this issue. 5. Swelling and pain in the leg area Because the hearts pumping action has been disrupted, chances are the circulation of blood and supply of oxygen to different parts of the body will be affected tremendously. As a result, edema or swelling in the legs due to accumulation of blood will be evident. Leg pains are also present because of insufficient oxygen supply to this area. 6. Breathlessness Due to insufficient oxygen supply in the blood, light-headedness and dizziness can be experienced as part of the bodys response mechanism. 7. Fatigue According to studies, a sense of crushing fatigue are usually experienced by heart attack patients months before the event. More than 70 percent of women in last years NIH study, for example, reported extreme fatigue in the weeks or months prior to their heart attack. 8. Sexual Dysfunction Men usually get problems in erection because when arteries and blood supply of the heart are damaged, the same structures in the penis area are affected as well. 9. Jaw, Ear, Neck, or Shoulder Pain This type of pain is the most neglected because people do expect that for a pain to be a potential heart attack symptom, it should come only from the chest area. However, recent reports have proven that intermittent pain that can radiate from the jaw to ears are one of the most reliable indicators of a deadly heart attack. 10. Abdominal discomfort Symptoms can range from mild indigestion to severe nausea, cramping, and vomiting. You cant always attribute these symptoms to an impending heart attack but theres a reason to suspect if abdominal discomfort is being experienced by someone who hasnt eaten anything bad or doesnt have stomach illness. Source: http://health.yahoo.net/articles/heart/photos/heart-attack-symptoms-you-are-most-likely-ignore#0

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