File name: Heart Failure Action Plan Pdf
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Types: Biographies · Medical Care · Collectible. If you have heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (also called HFrEF or systolic heart failure), it’s normal to feel scared or unsure about the future. But heart failure can be managed – and . Heart Failure Monitoring: Weigh yourself daily in the morning after emptying your bladder and record weights. Call the Central Nurse Triage Line at and select the symptom . If you notice changes in your heart failure symptoms follow your heart failure action plan. Acting quickly will help you to feel better and stay out of hospital. Heart failure action plan ALL CLEAR • My weight is in range • Little or no swelling • Breathing is unchanged Continue to: • Take my medications • Follow my fluid limits • Stay active every day • Choose low salt food WARNING Call my doctor or nurse if any of the following occur: weight goes up or down over 2 d ays by kg. heart failure: action plan. Every CHF patient should have an action plan that includes daily monitoring and steps for getting emergency care quickly in the event of severe symptoms. Reviewers: Heart Failure Program. CVC # Patient Education by Michigan Medicine is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial-ShareAlike International Public License. Last Revised 10/ Action Plan • Call your doctor or health care provider if you have any of the symptoms listed. • Your doctor may need to adjust your medications. Red Light: Medical Alert! • Weight gain of more than 5 pounds within a week • Severe swelling in feet, ankles, legs or stomach area • Unrelieved shortness of breath or severe. My Heart Failure Action Plan If you notice changes in your heart failure symptoms follow your heart failure action plan. Acting quickly will help you to feel better and stay out of hospital. A doctor or nurse specialist will develop your heart failure action plan with you. Ask about changes to your action plan at each visit. I feel well My.
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