Seems perfectly sensible. That and the arm raising thing. I would certainly ask a member of my family to smile or do the other checks if I thought they were having a stroke. Better to ask an apparently silly question than delay intervention and increase the resultant damage.
It's good advice, please practice with your loved one regularly. You never know when this awful condition will occur!
it's almost comical that 70% of people having a heart attack have absolutely no idea that's whats happening :eeek:
with symptoms like indigestion and toothache its all too often dismissed with serious damage to the heart resulting
there really should be more information.
It seems perfectly reasonable advice to me. When coming across any casualty a basic check of their abilities is essential, and timesaving. If you ask someone if they are ok and they dont answer you then why not ask them to do a simple facial expression or movement. It takes barely a second and could make a dramatic difference.
I am fully aware that more heart attacks take place daily where the victim has no idea of what happened than those who do know what is happening to them.
I know this because I have watched TV programmes, it is often an event in a programme like Doctors or the Soaps, even in comedy programmes, just as prevalent are those taken to hospital (on TV) where people think they are having a heart attack only to find it is indigestion, this is good for creating awareness, perhaps the Government could make the BBC run more "awareness, public information" clips as part of their terms and conditions of broadcasting, after all they are supposed to be partially funded by us for our benefit.