In 9 out of 10 people die from acute heart attack if you do not help in the first few minutes.

1. How to recognize a heart attack?

The heart suddenly began to beat is not as usual, or too loudly and erratically ( "the beating, do not beat") or too fast (tachycardia). The severity of the breast can be a pain in the left side of the body (under the shoulder blade, behind the breastbone, is given in the jaw on the left).

It's hard to breathe, especially to make a full exhalation. Do not panic, act quickly. You have just two or three ten seconds before you can lose consciousness.

2. Start coughing - many times and with great force.
Every time before you cough, take a deep breath, the cough must be deep and prolonged, as if you were spitting out phlegm from deep chest.

3. Once again, take a deep breath, exhale cough.
This will help to saturate with oxygen and the heart to restore the heart rhythm. Deep breath and coughing exhalation should be repeated every 2 seconds without interruption and stops, until the arrival of medical assistance.

A deep breath allows oxygen to penetrate into the lungs and coughing movements "compress" the heart and make the blood circulate. This pressure on the heart also helps it to achieve its normal rhythm.

Cardiologists say that if each of us shared this information with 10 people, at least one life could be saved.
The most common sign of a heart attack - chest pain with impact to the arm or jaw. Sometimes it may appear a feeling of suffocation.

What to do in this situation?

Just give nitroglycerin. And be sure to aspirin, which need to chew. Immediately call "ambulance." After five minutes, if pain persists to re nitroglycerin tablet and acetylsalicylic acid.

Only in two situations aspirin is contraindicated. When he has an allergy (asthma, aspirin) or active bleeding - ulcer, for example.