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If someone is unconscious, tilting the head back will open the airway, as it lifts the back of the tongue away from the back of the throat. Using two fingers to lift the chin will clear the airway even more. 4 🤏👅.

Well, we’re grabbing our whistle and blowing for fulltime on this myth. It is not humanly possible for you to swallow your tongue. However, it can still block the airway. 3 🤏👅.

In an effort to stop the unconscious player from “swallowing their tongue”, some players think they need to grab it. 2 🤏👅.

It’s a sight many football fans may be familiar with; two players take a knock leaving one unconscious. But it is what follows next that we’re focussing on today. 1 🤏👅

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4) 💔 Luckily, the majority of people who have a heart attack are sat upright and talking to you and modern treatments have hugely improved survival rates. #heartattack #cardiacarrest.

3) ♥ An area of dying heart muscle is unstable and can sometimes interrupt the heart’s electrical impulses, causing cardiac arrest, so it’s a good idea to have a defibrillator very nearby just in case.

2) 💔 A heart attack is caused if the surface of a cholesterol plaque in a coronary artery ruptures and the contents leak out. This leads to the formation of a blood clot, which completely blocks the coronary artery, resulting in the death of an area of the heart muscle.

1) ♥ We’re not sure where this myth has come from. Probably TV. But, whilst the heart may stop beating as a result of a heart attack, this isn’t what a heart attack is. If the heart stops beating, it’s called ‘cardiac arrest’.

♥ MYTH: A heart attack is when the heart stops beating 💔. We debunk this myth in this thread 🧵. #CardiacArrest #HeartAttack

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If the casualty is unconscious, laying on their back and has fluids (e.g. vomit) blocking the airway, you will need to turn them onto their side (ideally using the spinal recovery position if you know how). 4/4🧵.

– so it is safe to ask someone to carefully step out of a vehicle if they are able. If the casualty isn’t breathing, then you will need to put them on their backs and begin CPR. 3/4🧵.

If the casualty is in danger, they may need to be moved for their safety. Recent studies have shown that a casualty ‘self-extricating’ themselves from a vehicle causes less spinal movement than when the emergency services cut the roof off the car to extract them – . 2/4🧵.

If you come across someone with a suspected spinal injury, not moving them is a reasonable rule to follow. But there are some exceptions to this rule. 1/4🧵

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