Heart Failure: Patient Education from University of Colorado Hospital

Living With Heart Failure

Heart failure can be treated. By following the treatment regimen prescribed for you by your doctor, you can manage the effects of heart failure and significantly improve your quality of life. Among the treatment steps you should follow:

• Making regular visits to your heart failure doctor or nurse
• Taking all medicine your doctor prescribes for heart failure
• Exercising
• Eating foods that are low in fat, cholesterol and sodium (salt)

Getting a Second Opinion about Heart Failure

The doctors and staff at the University of Colorado Hospital Cardiac & Vascular Center are happy to provide second opinions for people who have been diagnosed with Heart Failure.

Additional Heart Failure Resources

American Heart Association

National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

Thoratec Corp. information on ventricular assist devices