Self Management of your heart failure requires you and your health care team to work together. Your self management plan will include taking regular medication, monitoring your weight and making lifestyle changes to help control and stabilise your condition.
Heart failure ranges from mild to severe. It cannot be cured but the symptoms can be controlled with an appropriate self management plan.
Living With Heart Failure Information for Patients and Carers
This is the instruction manual on how to cope with living with heart failure.
Written by the Highland Heart Failure Nursing Service in an easy to read and understand format this booklet is cramed with invaluable information for all heart failure patients and their careers.
The booklet describes what is heart failure, how it affects the body and provides guidelines on what you can do to manage your condition.
You can download a text version of the origional booklet by clicking picture above or clicking - here.
If you do not have a printed copy and would wish one, or to find out more then please contact -
Heart Failure Nursing Service
Flat 3, The Rowans
New Craigs
Inverness
Many heart charities provide very useful publications to help you self manage and live with your condition.
Everything is explained in clear easily understood language.
British Heart Foundation
"Living With Heart Failure" This booklet is for people with heart failure, their family and friends. It explains what heart failure is, what causes it, the symptoms, the possible treatments including medicines, and what can be done to help keep the condition under control. This booklet is also available to download in large print - for more information look in the similar publications list.
Same title as BHF booklet but different content.
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland improves the quality of life for people in Scotland affected by chest, heart and stroke illness. This is their booklet offering advice and information to aid the self management of your condition.Can Be Dowloaded Here
It appears that you can keep someone alive after a cardiac arrest without having to get ‘up close and personal’ by doing the kiss of life bit.
The fact is that you have enough oxygen in your blood to keep you alive as long as someone keeps it pumping around your body by pushing your chest until an ambulance arrives.
So for its latest campaign the BHF set out to produce a TV advert that will save lives; an advert that will teach people Hands Only CPR in 40 seconds; an advert that will enable anyone to save someone else’s life.
It is hoped that people like the advert and pass it on to their friends and family. The more people who know that Hands Only CPR can keep someone alive the better.
The BHF got permission from the Bee Gees to use their song Stayin’Alive. Hopefully it will be catchy and the sort of thing that will stay in people’s minds as a reminder that you should push fast.
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This booklet is for people with heart failure, their family and friends. It explains what heart failure is, what causes it, the symptoms, the possible treatments including medicines, and what can be done to help keep the condition under control. This booklet is also available to download in large print - for more information look in the similar publications list.
Same title as BHF booklet but different content.