When elderly patients with cardiovascular disease suffer from the risk of sudden death, cough is a quick, effective, simple, easy "cardiac resuscitation"; it can make a lot of people be free of death, to win valuable time for the following rescue treatment.

It is rarely known that cough can increase the blood flow of cerebral vessel and supplement oxygen to the brain to make the patient temporarily stay awake to win the time for later professional rescue.

It is more critical that cough also can adjust the heartbeat rhythm, improve sympathetic excitability, and help restore and maintain a normal heart function. Actively coughing is a proven self-rescue mothod. The effect is similar to the "electric defibrillation". Tracing back to  the European Society of Cardiology in 2003, researchers have stated that when the sudden cardiac arrest happened, the patient's blood circulation would suddenly stagnate; if before the cardiac arrest occurs, patients can violently cough (cough will increase the pressure inside the thorax), it would have a direct massage on the heart.

In the United States, heart disease care units in many large hospital required paitents to accept the learning and training of cough self-rescue when hospitalization, so that if their hearts occur accidents, when it was too late to call for the medical staff, or medical personnel could rescue in time, patients can help themselves.

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