{"id":34147,"date":"2019-06-29T14:22:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T14:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34147"},"modified":"2019-06-29T14:22:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T14:22:03","slug":"how-to-save-your-own-life-in-12-scary-emergencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/?p=34147","title":{"rendered":"How to Save Your Own Life in 12 Scary Emergencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emergencies happen <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-listicle-full wp-image-1159722 cms-admin-image-300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-760x506.jpg\" alt=\"ambulance\" width=\"760\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-760x506.jpg 760w, https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-568x379.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-380x254.jpg 380w, https:\/\/www.rd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/shutterstock_655846450-15x10.jpg 15w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" data-image-analytics='\"licensorName\":\"Shutterstock\",\"credits\":\"Tobias Arhelger\\\/Shutterstock\"' \/>While your odds of having a heart attack are much higher than those of finding yourself in most of these scenarios, strange things happen every day. For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/piper.filecamp.com\/uniq\/VSEedbiyZYHfCbw0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every 12   seconds<\/a>, someone called a poison center for help in 2017. Each year an estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/falls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">646, 000<\/a> people die of traumata from falling. In 2017, search-and-rescue rangers in our national parks responded to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2016\/11\/18\/these-charts-show-most-common-reasons-people-need-rescues-national-parks\/rmxtZQhUBrPDx76XIaexrI\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 3,453<\/a> calls, including for people who were also sick or injured. In 2015 alone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsc.org\/home-safety\/safety-topics\/choking-suffocation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 5,000<\/a> people died from choking in the United State. While 90   percent of people hit by lightning survive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/weather\/2018\/01\/02\/lightning-deaths-all-time-record-low-2017\/996949001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">about 27<\/a> Americans are killed by lightning strikes every year. How do you keep yourself out of the statistics? Besides calling 911, here&rsquo;s what to do in life-threatening emergencies when no one&rsquo;s around to help.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/health\/healthcare\/how-to-save-your-own-life\/\">How to Save Your Own Life in 12 Scary Emergencies<\/a> seemed first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\">Reader&#8217;s Digest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rd.com\/health\/healthcare\/how-to-save-your-own-life\/\">rd.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergencies happen While your odds of having a heart attack are much higher than those of finding yourself in most of these scenarios, strange things happen every day. For example, every 12 seconds, someone called a poison center for help in 2017. Each year an estimated 646, 000 people die of traumata from falling. In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1135,14403],"class_list":["post-34147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-uncategorized","tag-health-care","tag-life-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/shutterstock_655846450-1024x6831561818124.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismartnetwork.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}