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What is Heart Failure?
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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
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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
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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...
Managing Heart Failure
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Taking Your Medicine
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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
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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
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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
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Vasodilators

Vasodilators are medications that can be used to treat CHF because they help widen your blood vessels. Having wider blood vessels he...
Diuretics
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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
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Advanced Therapies

Congestive heart failure is considered advanced when your symptoms are no longer controlled with medication, you’ve been in the hosp...
Pain Control
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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...
A Couple Days After Surgery
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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
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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
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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...