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What is Heart Failure?
The term “heart failure” can be scary because it sounds like your heart has stopped working, but that’s not true. What heart failure...
Symptoms of Heart Failure
If you have CHF, it’s important to keep a close eye on your symptoms and how you feel every day. There are some symptoms you may exp...
Diagnostic Tests
To understand more about your condition, your doctor may need to order some tests. The most common tests for heart failure are a che...
How Your Heart Works
Your heart is an amazing organ. It beats about 100,000 times every day, to move blood around your body. As your heart beats, blood c...
Your Healthcare Team (MWHC)
Our goal is to take the best care of you, and to do that there is a whole team of people whose job is to help care for you. Your hea...
Managing Heart Failure
If you have heart failure, your treatment plan will probably include taking medication and making some lifestyle changes. Following...
Your Self Management Plan
If you have CHF, it’s important to always keep a close eye on your symptoms. The chart in this video shows the most common symptoms...
Weigh Yourself Daily
When you have heart failure, it’s important to keep track of your symptoms every day. One of these symptoms is fluid buildup, and on...
Limit Salt & Fluid Intake
Sodium is a mineral that helps control the amount of fluid in your body. People who have heart failure need to follow a low-sodium d...
Find the Right Balance of Exercise and Rest
When you have heart failure, it’s important to find the right balance of rest and physical activity. It’s a good idea to plan rest t...
Avoid Unnecessary Demands on Your Heart
If you’re living with heart failure, making healthy lifestyle choices can have a big impact on how you feel. It’s all about taking a...
Taking Your Medicine
If you have CHF, you may be taking several new medications to treat your condition. If you’re already taking other prescriptions, he...
ACE Inhibitors
One of the most common medications people with CHF take is called an ACE inhibitor. ACE inhibitors are used to lower blood pressure....
Beta Blockers
You may take a medication called a beta blocker to help treat your CHF. Beta blockers are important in managing heart failure becaus...
Vasodilators
Vasodilators are medications that can be used to treat CHF because they help widen your blood vessels. Having wider blood vessels he...
Diuretics
You may take diuretics to help treat some of your symptoms. Diuretics help your body release fluid as urine, which reduces the amoun...
Advanced Therapies
Congestive heart failure is considered advanced when your symptoms are no longer controlled with medication, you’ve been in the hosp...
Automated Implanted Cardioverter Defibrilator (ICD)
Some people with CHF can benefit from having a device called an implantable cardioverter defibrillator, or ICD, inserted under the...
Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy-Biventricular Pacemaker (CRT)
If you have heart failure and an irregular heart rhythm, your doctor may recommend cardiac resynchronization therapy, or CRT. CRT de...
Wearable Cardioverter Defibrillator
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator, such as the ZOLL LifeVest, is a nonsurgical treatment option for people who are at risk for s...
Smart Grocery Shopping
It’s important to know how to shop for your groceries in a smart and heart-healthy way. The following tips are ways for you to shop...
Label Reading
An important part of smart grocery shopping is reading food labels, also known as the “Nutrition Facts.” Because the food you eat is...
Pain Control
If you have pain after having a procedure or surgery, good pain control is important to keep you comfortable and to help you get wel...
Smoking Risk Factors
If you smoke, you probably know it damages your body in a lot of ways. For one thing, smoking lowers the amount of oxygen that goes...
How to Use an Incentive Spirometer
After surgery, since you won’t be moving around like you usually do, you’ll need to exercise your lungs to keep them healthy. Using...
A Couple Days After Surgery
A day or two after your surgery, you’ll start to move around more, increasing your activity and self-care as you’re able. You’ll sit...
Pain After Surgery
Having some pain after a procedure or surgery is normal, but you and your care team can work together to control it. Pain control is...
Pain Assessment
Having some pain after a procedure or surgery is normal. To help your care team understand how much pain you have, throughout the da...
Drug Free Methods for Controlling Pain
Unfortunately, we all have to deal with physical pain sometimes. It may be chronic, from an ongoing condition like back pain or head...