Living With Heart Failure A Patient Teaching Guide

Many new cases of heart failure are diagnosed each year.

Living with heart failure a patient teaching guide.

Heart failure means your heart does not pump blood as well as it should. This online manual includes information about heart failure and how to manage it. Although some cases of heart failure cannot be cured heart failure can be managed through diet exercise and medicine. It affects 5 million americans with 550 000 new cases diagnosed each year.

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. Please watch our heart failure class to learn important information. Heart failure is a condition that affects over 350 000 canadians of all ages. The guide includes important information about heart failure including treatment nutrition activity when to call your doctor and living with heart failure.

It is meant to be used as a guide. Knowledge and increased awareness are key to improved management of heart failure. Patient tip sheets. It is the most common diagnosis that brings a patient to a hospital for admission.

It is the most common cause of hospitalization in people over 65. What is heart failure. Written by heart failure experts at cleveland clinic. To manage your heart failure you need to take certain steps every day to be healthy at home.

What is heart failure heart failure hf is sometimes called congestive heart failure chf. Despite how scary it sounds heart failure does not mean that your heart will suddenly. Heart failure class 1 of 4.