India, Sept. 4 -- Heart attacks can be deadly if safety measures are not taken on time. In an Instagram post shared on August 31, Dr Alok Chopra, a cardiologist and functional medicine expert, listed a few life-steps one should take if they see someone having a heart attack.

The video of Dr Alok Chopra is from a podcast called Impact Stories, where the cardiologist was asked what someone who is not a doctor should do in case they see a person on the street or anywhere else without immediate medical assistance having a heart attack.

The exercise suggested above by Dr Chopra is called Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). In CPR, chest compressions are applied to manually pump blood through the heart and maintain circulation when someone's...