Living With Heart Failure A Patient Teaching Guide

Knowledge and increased awareness are key to improved management of heart failure.

Living with heart failure a patient teaching guide.

It affects 5 million americans with 550 000 new cases diagnosed each year. Patient tip sheets. Heart failure is a condition that affects over 350 000 canadians of all ages. Many new cases of heart failure are diagnosed each year.

It is the most common cause of hospitalization in people over 65. 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. 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.

This online manual includes information about heart failure and how to manage it. Despite how scary it sounds heart failure does not mean that your heart will suddenly. Please watch our heart failure class to learn important information. The heart is a pump.

Although some cases of heart failure cannot be cured heart failure can be managed through diet exercise and medicine. Heart failure means your heart does not pump blood as well as it should. Heart failure class 1 of 4. What is heart failure.

It is meant to be used as a guide. 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.