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In summer, heat and stress can lead to heart attacks. In The Health Magazine , on Europe 1, the emergency doctor Jimmy Mohamed details the procedure to follow when one is faced with such a situation.
"There are four major steps to follow in these cases," says the doctor. " In 1, we must first secure the environment, we try to avoid the over-accident , in 2 it is a question of checking the state of consciousness of the person ." It is said that a person is in cardiac arrest if she is unconscious, if she does not move or if she does not breathe, we do not have to take the pulse, from that moment we start the extra chain, that is to say that in 3, we alert: we call the 15, the 18 or the 112. If we can not do it ourselves, we must try to ask someone to do it.It is also important to send someone look for a defibrillator if there is one available, and that's the case in many places now, and in 4 you have to start resuscitation and take the saving actions. "
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Every minute of lost heart massage is 10% less life expectancy
Arrived at this stage, everyone does not know how to act well. "We must try to undress her, if there are several layers of clothing, we remove them quickly," says the doctor. "We look at if there are movements of chest oscillations.If the person is unconscious, if it does not move, and so if it does not seem to breathe, we start to massage.Every minute lost in the heart massage that's 10% less life expectancy. "
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To achieve a good heart massage, how should you do it? "Better to do bad than do nothing," says our doctor. "The ideal is to be on a hard plane, to be on your knees, perpendicular to the person, with the palm of your hands resting on the chest, having opened the shirt, so we do not hesitate to undressing if necessary, between the two breasts for the women, between the two pecs for the men, and we do a pretty strong compression, we must not be afraid, and we must support them, at a rather important pace. "
To give you an idea of the pace to adopt, about 100 compressions per minute, we usually refer to the famous Bee Gees tube, Stayin 'Alive :
If a defibrillator is available, its use is relatively simple. "We open the machine, we undress the patient, there are two patches to put on, we press a button to light it, and it is the machine that says what to do. must shock or continue the massage. "
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Word-of-mouth is no longer required
Jimmy Mohamed also wants to go against conventional wisdom, especially that of the imperative necessity of mouth to mouth. "Word-of-mouth is no longer mandatory," says our doctor. "It's better to massage and not stop, you can do 30 compressions and two breaths, but it's better to have a continuous cardiac massage, it's a lot more effective than doing an insufflation that does not work."
Finally, remember that the training PSC1 (prevention and rescue civic level 1), which lasts a day and costs a few tens of euros only, allows everyone to learn how to react in case of discomfort or cardiac arrest. And maybe, in the future, to be able to save lives.