<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> cough CPR</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">should only be performed under strict professional supervision.</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Hard to have that when you are alone. Frankly if I thought I was having a heart attack, had called, stopped in the road, whatever, I would do it just in case. Nobody said it was harmful, did they? I would pray to every god who ever was named, including Chango. There is no superstition that I would not try. </font></span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Including voodoo. Let's see, just where did I put my Voodoo Bible?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 11:13 AM BillK <<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 16:38, spike wrote:<br>
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> Your best safety device is a phone.<br>
> If you are driving, stop right in the middle of the lane.<br>
><br>
<br>
That's right, Spike. Phone immediately for emergency assistance. You<br>
may only have seconds available before you lose consciousness.<br>
The cough-CPR email hoax has been going round since about 1999 and may kill you.<br>
Always check these 'advice' emails with Snopes or Hoax-slayer first.<br>
<br>
See:<br>
<<a href="https://www.hoax-slayer.net/survive-heart-attack-alone-hoax/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.hoax-slayer.net/survive-heart-attack-alone-hoax/</a>><br>
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Quote:<br>
The message outlines a technique for surviving a heart attack while<br>
alone that involves vigorous coughing. According to the email, a<br>
cardiologist has advised forwarding the message to others in order to<br>
save lives. However, the alleged cardiologist is not named, nor is<br>
there any reference to a reputable medical institution. In my opinion,<br>
any life-critical “medical advice” that is not supported by credible<br>
reference material should be used with extreme caution.<br>
<br>
It should be noted that the cough procedure outlined in the email is<br>
not, in itself, a hoax and has been researched and tested by medical<br>
experts. In fact, so called “Cough CPR” might be beneficial under<br>
certain controlled circumstances. However, this does not mean that the<br>
advice in the email message is valid and useful. The most important<br>
factor to consider is that, according to medical experts, cough CPR<br>
should only be performed under strict professional supervision.<br>
<br>
Heart patient support organization Mended Hearts has also debunked the<br>
procedure:<br>
<br>
Despite a contagious rumor, coughing doesn’t prevent a heart attack.<br>
An e-mail that spread around the world like a contagious disease a few<br>
years ago claimed that anyone who feels heart attack symptoms while<br>
alone should cough “repeatedly and very vigorously, repeating a breath<br>
about every two seconds…until help arrives, or (a normal heartbeat<br>
returns).”<br>
<br>
Wrong, says the American Heart Association.<br>
“It’s right up there with voodoo as far as I’m concerned,” says Dr.<br>
Cary Fishbein, a cardiologist with the Dayton Heart Center.<br>
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BillK<br>
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