I thought this was supposed to be and urban legend

[BooGiMaN]

i could have sworn i saw this on here as beign false

linky dinky

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Health - Reuters

Coughing Might Save Heart Attack Victims
Tue Sep 2,10:17 AM ET Add Health - Reuters to My Yahoo!



VIENNA (Reuters) - Coughing hard at the first sign of a heart attack could a save patient's life, a Polish doctor said on Tuesday.

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but then again this is comign from a polish doctor 😛

 

[notfred]

here it is in snopes


EDIT: Snopes says that if you know exactly what you're doing it may help, but if you don't know what you're doing it's bad for you. The doctor in your link advocating training people on proper coughing technique.

 

[captains]

during the training do they hand out gloves and ask u to assistant your partner if they need help coughing 😀

 

[pulse8]

I thought the boogiman was an urban legend, too, and here you are. 😛

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: notfred
here it is in snopes

yeah but read the whole story:

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Tadeusz Petelenz of the Cardiological Foundation in Katowice, Poland, said the pumping action caused by vigorous coughing could push blood through the body and to the brain for valuable minutes while an ambulance arrived.


Every year one in a 1,000 people in the Western world die from a cardiac arrest, the vast majority caused by a sudden problem with the heart's rhythm.


In these cases, properly timed and performed coughs can allow the patient to maintain consciousness and even regain an effective heart beat, Petelenz told the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).


Currently, only one in 10 victims of cardiac arrest survive without serious brain damage.


High-risk patients should therefore be taught how to cough effectively, starting with a single cough every one to two seconds in bouts of five coughs, Petelenz said.


In a study, 115 patients in Katowice at risk of cardiac arrest were trained to cough at the first sign of an attack and did so on 365 occasions. In 292 cases the symptoms disappeared and only 73 required medical attention, Petelenz reported.


Some doctors already encourage patients to cough when under intensive heart treatment in hospital. But Professor Leo Bossaert, ESC executive director, questioned whether it was practical to expect patients to treat themselves in this way at home.

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apparently this hospital encourages the coughing!

i hope this doctor didnt get his info via that chain letter email

 

[Ranger X]

Originally posted by: pulse8
I thought the boogiman was an urban legend, too, and here you are. 😛

And it's not even night time yet. 🙂