Living With Heart Failure A Patient Teaching Guide

To manage your heart failure you need to take certain steps every day to be healthy at home.

Living with heart failure a patient teaching guide.

Please watch our heart failure class to learn important information. Heart failure occurs when the heart is not working as well as it should. It is the most common diagnosis that brings a patient to a hospital for admission. Patient tip sheets.

What is heart failure. Although some cases of heart failure cannot be cured heart failure can be managed through diet exercise and medicine. Written by heart failure experts at cleveland clinic. Despite how scary it sounds heart failure does not mean that your heart will suddenly.

It affects 5 million americans with 550 000 new cases diagnosed each year. It is meant to be used as a guide. Heart failure means your heart does not pump blood as well as it should. The class has been recorded in whole and in each part for your ease in watching and returning to information you may want to review.

The heart is a pump. The guide includes important information about heart failure including treatment nutrition activity when to call your doctor and living with heart failure. What is heart failure heart failure hf is sometimes called congestive heart failure chf. Heart failure is a condition that affects over 350 000 canadians of all ages.

Heart failure class 1 of 4. It is the most common cause of hospitalization in people over 65. This online manual includes information about heart failure and how to manage it.