Patient Education Information

What is Congestive Heart Failure? and How Can I Live With Heart Failure? - The American Heart Association answers these questions.

Heart Failure - The NIH Senior Health website offers this information.

Heart Failure - This handout, prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians for consumers, contains general information about heart failure.

What is Heart Failure? - The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute have created this fact sheet.

Deciphering Heart Disease Medspeak - The Medical Library Association has created this brochure.

Congestive Heart Failure - Contains general information on the causes and treatment of CHF, brought to you by the American College of Cardiology.

Congestive Heart Failure - This handout on congestive heart failure was prepared by the Penn State Cardiovascular Center at Hershey Medical Center.

CHF:How to Stay Well and Out of the Hospital-FamilyDoctor offers these tips.

Heart Failure - The Journal of the American Medical Association offers this information.

Medications Commonly Used to Treat Heart Failure - The American Heart Association explains which meds are used and how they work.

MEDLINEPlus Medical Encyclopedia - The Health Illustrated Encyclopedia from MedlinePlus includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Please check the alphabetic listing for the topic you want.

A Proper Diet - The American Heart Association offers lots of tips on how to eat healthy and help your heart.

Signs and Symptoms of Heart Failure - The American Heart Association has compiled this list, along with a good explanation of each one.

What Are Holter, Event, and Transtelephonic Monitors? - Read more about these various ways of measuring your heart activity.

What Is an Electrocardiogram? - More information on another heart test.

What Is Echocardiography? - Learn more about this type of heart test.