Living With Heart Failure A Patient Teaching Guide

What is heart failure.

Living with heart failure a patient teaching guide.

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. It is meant to be used as a guide. Heart failure means your heart does not pump blood as well as it should. Knowledge and increased awareness are key to improved management of heart failure.

Written by heart failure experts at cleveland clinic. The guide includes important information about heart failure including treatment nutrition activity when to call your doctor and living with heart failure. Please watch our heart failure class to learn important information. Heart failure class 1 of 4.

What is heart failure heart failure hf is sometimes called congestive heart failure chf. 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. Although some cases of heart failure cannot be cured heart failure can be managed through diet exercise and medicine.

It is the most common diagnosis that brings a patient to a hospital for admission. To manage your heart failure you need to take certain steps every day to be healthy at home. Heart failure occurs when the heart is not working as well as it should. It affects 5 million americans with 550 000 new cases diagnosed each year.

Patient tip sheets. The american association of heart failure nurses aahfn patient education committee s goal is to provide evidence based education and information on heart failure to patients families and healthcare providers. The heart is a pump.