First Aid & Emergency Treatment for Heart Attack
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Heart Attack is a condition in which a portion of the heart muscle is damaged due to inadequate supply of Oxygen to that area. If immediate first aid and medical attention is not given, there may be a Cardiac arrest. That is, the heart stops to pump enough blood to the vital organs.
<h2>Help to take Medication</h2>
The person must be made to sit down and be calm. Loosen any tight cloth. Ask if the person takes any chest pain medication for a know heart condition. Help the person take the medication (usually nitro glycerine which is paced under he tongue.).
<h2>Under unconscious Condition</h2>
If there is no breathing or pulse the patient has a cardiac arrest and do the following. Raise the legs up to 12 to 18 inches to allow more blood to flow towards the heart. Immediately place the palm of your hand flat on the patient’s chest just over the lower part of the sternum (breast bone) and press your hand in a pumping motion once or twice by using the other hand. This may make the heart beat again. If the action do not restored the pulse or if the subject doesn’t begin to breathe again provide artificial respiration immediately and begin to give CPR.
<h2>How to give artificial respiration</h2>
Tilt the head back and lift up the chin. Pinch the nostrils shut with two fingers to prevent leakage of air. Take a deep breath and seal your own mouth to the persons mouth. Breath slowly into the person’s mouth-it should take about two seconds to adequately inflate the chest. Do this twice. Check to see if the chest rises as you breath into the patient. If there is resistance try to hold the head back further and lift the chin again. Repeat this procedure until help arrives or person start breath again.
<h2>How to perform CPR</h2>
Artificial respiration and CPR should be performed both at the same time.
Look at the person’s chest and find the ‘upside-down V’ shaped notch that is made by the lower edge of the ribcage. Place your middle finger in this notch and then place your index finger beside it, resting on the breastbone. Take the heel of your other hand and slide it down the breastbone until it is touching this index finger. The heel of your hand should now be positioned on the middle of the lower half of the breastbone. Now place the heel of your other hand on top of the first. Keep your fingers off the chest, by locking them together. Your pressure should be applied through the heels of the hands only. Keep your elbows straight, and bring your body weight over your hands to make it easier to press down.
Press down firmly and quickly to achieve a downwards movement of 4 to 5cm, then relax and repeat the compression. Do this 15 times, then give artificial respiration twice, and continue this 15:2 procedure until help arrives.  Aim for a rate of compression of about 100 per minute. You can help your timing and counting by saying out loud ‘one and two and three and four …’ etc.
Make sure the patient continues breathing and has a pulse until the Ambulance arrives.
Dev Saras
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/first-aid-emergency-treatment-for-heart-attack-671763.html
Where is the compassion in this answer?
Considering someone posted that they had a family member undergoing emergency treatment for a heart attack…all they wanted was some prayer…and this is an example of courage on the part of the atheist outlook?
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Sorry, but I don’t perform meaningless acts. I hope for his sake he has doctors who feel likewise - would you be happy if they prayed instead of working on him? THINK!
First…I want to thank all other non-believers from having the courtesy to refrain. That means a lot.
Second…some folks have one way of talking when behind a screen. Can you imagine this being verbalized to the family if we were physically together?
Probably not…but someone out there turns to Y/A for a bit of comfort in a time of need…and the other person just doesn’t care.
Wow.
Again…where is the compassion in this answer?
I think most folk who criticize my question are missing the bigger one…would you feel comfortable having this verbally said if we were physically present with each other? Or does having an avatar mean we no longer consider the feelings of the person in need, and there fore should feel free to say whatever we want?
I see none in that answer.
I appreciate it when nonbelievers refrain from responding to questions asking for prayer for a loved one. When someone asks such a question, they are looking for comfort and encouragement. That sort of an answer gives none.
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There is always room for a little empathy regardless of the disparate views in this place. When I was an atheist I would bow my head when others prayed in deference to their feelings. It’s a sad commentary when our need for brutal honesty becomes more important to us than our humanity.
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First, you did not interpret the compassion in that answer, while I do.
The hope that his doctors work on him rather than pray for him is indeed a compassionate thought. Don’t you think? Or would you rather the doctors prayed instead of working on him?
Second, If a person is desolate, they should not turn to Y! A R&S for comfort. This is a question and answer forum, not some christian chat room.
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An atheist perspective
There is none, atheists are blinded by pride and we should pray for them too.I will pray for your family and I am sorry people have no mercy for others.Where no mercy is shown none will be given in the day of judgment.
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No compassion whatsoever. The person who wrote this lives in a very dark and cold place, and it is sad to think that people can sleep comfortably there.
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Honesty does not conflict with compassion. Prayer doesn’t work, as the studies prove;
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12082681/
Would you claim I lacked compassion if you were living in a drought and I refused to do a rain dance?
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Usually the word "sorry" shows some compassion. No disrespect to you but, not everyone shows compassion the same way.
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I feel compassion for the answerer.
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You might like to read the TOS again. There are plenty of sites set up as prayer circles. This site is not one of them.
You also have plenty of kids on here and plenty of cranky old farts.
I doubt if it has anything to do with compassion, and what kinds of people think prayers work like a petition based on the number of sugnitures you get anyhow. Doesn’t your own God(Jesus) tell you to go off by yourself and to pray quietly and alone if you want to be heard
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I don’t understand why they felt the need to answer this
because it was directed at people who pray.
Why can’t they just refrain from answering?
And this can also goes for believers when atheists ask other
atheists about things that concern them.
Sometimes some non believers and believers want each other to come in and argue when they insult right at the
get go, I know.
This one though was just asking people who pray to pray.
By the way, this is a Christian chat room, an atheist chat
room, etc.
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I hear you man, it’s sad.
Ignore studies as well cause in 2 second I found one that have a diffrent view than the prayer doesn’t work ones.
http://www.1stholistic.com/Prayer/hol_prayer_proof.htm
Everyone has a agenda kitty.
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I would like to have a doctor who prayed while he worked GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR’S.
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