I guess this is circulating on the web, so thought I might put it here..info only..

"...From my sister, the surgical nurse and certified CPR teacher:
Please pause for 2 minutes and read this:

1. Let’s say it’s 7.25pm and you’re going home (alone of course) after an unusually hard day on the job.
2. You’re really tired, upset and frustrated.
3 Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to drag out into your arm and up in to your jaw. You are only about five km from the hospital nearest your home.
4. Unfortunately you don’t know if you’ll be able to make it that far.
5. You have been trained in CPR, but the guy who taught the course did not tell you how to perform it on yourself.
6. HOW TO SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE? Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
7. However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
8. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
9. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!!
10. A cardiologist says If everyone who gets this mail kindly sends it to 10 people, you can bet that we’ll save at least one life.
11. Rather than sending jokes, please... contribute by forwarding this mail which can save a person’s life.
12. If this message comes around you... more than once… please don’t get irritated... You should instead, be happy that you have many friends who care about you & keeps reminding you how to deal with a Heart attack..."

IGNORE THIS POST, jpc I paused- judged it worthy (if only that it passed the common sense test) and am now in the process of passing it along. And a very big THANK YOU from one who is old and by his self a great deal of the time. In fact i say print it and post it on your sun visor. once again thanks!

The American Heart Association does not endorse "cough CPR," a coughing procedure widely publicized on the Internet. As noted in the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascula...


Cough CPR - American Heart Association


heart.org
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Cough CPR is a suggested resuscitation technique that began circulating on the internet around 1999. The premise is that by coughing and deep breathing every two seconds a person suffering a cardiac arrhythmia immediately before cardiac arrest can sup...
Cough CPR as an emergency form of self CP…
smart-heart-living.com


Cough CPR is the subject of a hoax email that began circulating in 1999.[citation needed] It is described as a "resuscitation technique" in which through prolonged coughing and deep breathing every 2 seconds, a person suffering a cardiac dysrhythmi...
Cough CPR - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think I would give it a try. Might not help but I don't think it would be harmful. Chest compressions do make sense...

Steve.
I had the same thought "what the hell! why not give it a try, at this point any port in a storm"
unfortunately I punched the "post now" button at the same time

So I just found this..

Cough, Cough ?

Not necessarily recommended.. Those that are allergic/sensitive to Aspirin (like me) may have to stick w/ it though..