Heart Failure

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	Decision Points focus on key medical care decisions that are important to many health problems.
	Heart failure: Should I get a pacemaker?
	Heart failure: Should I get an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)?
	Actionsets are designed to help people take an active role in managing a health condition.
	Anticoagulants: Vitamin K and your diet
	Heart failure: Activity and exercise
	Heart failure: Avoiding medicines that make symptoms worse
	Heart failure: Avoiding triggers for sudden heart failure
	Heart failure: Checking your weight
	Heart failure: Eating less salt
	Heart failure: Taking medicines properly
	Heart failure: Watching your fluids
	Heart problems: Living with a pacemaker or ICD
	Low-salt diets: Eating out
	Oxygen therapy: Using oxygen at home

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Author:	Robin Parks, MS	Last Updated: August 25, 2008
Medical Review:	Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD - Cardiology
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