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Question 1

Does heart failure mean your heart has stopped?

	A. Yes

	B. No

AN ANIMATED JOURNEY THROUGH HEART FAILURE

How the normal heart works

What goes wrong in heart failure

How the heart and body compensate in heart failure

How heart failure causes fluid accumulation

How a heart attack can cause heart failure

How abnormal heart valves can cause heart failure

How vasodilators work in heart failure

How diuretics work in heart failure

How medical devices work in heart failure

These narrated animations explain how a healthy heart works, what happens to it in heart failure and how various treatments work to improve your health

Useful tools

Click to print these tools to help you monitor your heart failure

Patient and caregivers videos

Living with an LVAD

Patient in exercise training

Patient with an ICD

Patient and caregivers videos - saved

Accepting death

An LVAD as a bridge to transplantation

Copy of Patient in exercise training

Coughing worse when lying down

Feels he can contact his heart failure nurse at any time

Felt bloated after eating small amounts of food

Felt breathless and could feel fluid in her lungs

Her consultant thinks her heart failure was caused by a viral infection

How he remembers to take his medicines