Living with Heart Disease

Even if you already have heart, stroke or vascular disease, you may be able to reduce the severity of your condition by modifying your lifestyle, for example by improving your diet and not smoking. It is important that you seek appropriate medical advice to help manage your condition, and follow this advice closely.

Reviewed October 2011

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Title:   Structured telephone support or telemonitoring programmes for patients with chronic heart failure
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In the context of limited health funding, and a rapidly expanding population of older patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) it is increasingly difficult for healthcare systems to provide high-quality care to patients with CHF. Multi-disciplinary...
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Prognostic issues
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Recognising the significance and irreversibility of multi-organ failure occurring in the terminal phase of heart failure is important because inappropriate investigation and management of this problem can contribute significantly to patients' and families' distress around the time of death. Predictors of survival of six months or less include increased dependency in activities of daily living, number and severity of comorbidities, worse nutritional status and weight loss and abnormal vital signs
Date:   May 2011
Title:   Personal Stories about Heart Disease
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to personal stories on living with heart disease.
Date:   Mar 2011
Title:   Service issues
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   More evidence is needed about how supportive care should be integrated throughout the course of treatment of heart failure patients, how to select those interventions which will most benefit specific patients, and about how best to understand and communicate prognosis so that patients' wishes can be integrated into goals of care
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Carers and families
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Social support has a significant effect on the quality of life and prognosis of patients, and may reduce depression and anxiety. Lack of emotional support has been independently associated with a higher rate of fatal and non-fatal cardiac events. Caregivers of patients with heart failure often do not access formal social services but nonetheless they carry a significant burden of care.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Management issues
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   As a patient with stable heart failure decompensates symptoms may escalate dramatically.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Symptoms and patients' experiences
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Patients with advanced heart failure experience severe physical and psychosocial symptoms. Psychosocial issues include the experience of social isolation, fear, loss of control, life disruption, uncertainty about prognosis, and difficulty in accessing and dealing with information about their condition and in navigating the health system.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Heart failure
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Heart failure is an eventually fatal condition which is becoming more prevalent, and is associated with severe symptom distress and high rates of mortality. Patients with advanced heart failure benefit from receiving, in parallel, active disease management and a personalised palliative approach to their care.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for coronary heart disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the most common forms of heart disease. It affects the heart by restricting or blocking the flow of blood around it. This can lead to a feeling of tightness in the chest (angina) or a heart attack. Exercise-based c...
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Coronary heart disease
Publisher:   RealTime Health Pty. Ltd.
Description:   Online videos and DVD's of the personal stories and patient experiences of people with coronary heart disease.
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Heart attack overview - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   A heart attack means the blood supply to part of the heart muscle has become blocked. Early treatment can reduce damage to the muscle.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Heart surgery in later years
Publisher:   RealTime Health Pty. Ltd.
Description:   Online videos and DVD's of the personal stories and patient experiences of people who have undergone heart surgery in their later years.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Psychological interventions for depression in adolescent and adult congenital heart disease
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Sometimes young adults and adults who are born with heart problems grow up and have depression. Treatments to help them other than anti-depressant drugs include psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapies and talking therapies. Benefits to having tre...
Date:   Oct 2008
Title:   Exercise based rehabilitation for heart failure
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   People with heart failure can experience marked reductions in their activities of daily living and health-related quality of life because of their restricted heart capacity. This can reduce their ability to exercise, which can further reduce fitness mak...
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Clinical service organisation for heart failure
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) are often admitted to hospital as an emergency. The authors looked at 16 clinical trials that tested different ways of organising the care of CHF patients after they leave hospital. Only one of these trials was ...
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Heart attack - Albie's story
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Albie has experienced two heart attacks. His first occurred in his 60s and led to his retirement from a stressful job. Tell me about your first heart attack.
Date:   Dec 2003
Title:   Palliative care for non-malignant disease? (Editorial)
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The Minister for Health and Ageing recently announced $4.5 million of Commonwealth funding for palliative care programs in Australia. Importantly, these funds and the programs they support are not constrained within the traditional boundaries of palliation for patients with terminal malignant disease.
Date:   Oct 2003
Title:   Cardiac rehabilitation guideline
Publisher:   New Zealand Guidelines Group (NZGG)
Description:   Guidelines for best practice cardiac rehabilitation in New Zealand. They apply primarily to patients with coronary heart disease, and specifically those following an acute coronary syndrome (acute myocardial infarction/unstable angina) and following coronary bypass surgery and angioplasty.The guidelines are aimed at all health professionals working in cardiac rehabilitation, primary care providers and health information services.
Date:   Aug 2002
Title:   Long QT syndrome: the Foley family's story - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Read about how the Foley family has coped with the huge impact that Long QT syndrome has had on their lives.
Date:   Apr 2001
Title:   Heart health and cardiac rehabilitation
Publisher:   Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW)
Description:   Information on risk factors for coronary heart disease, cardiac rehabilitation and cardiac rehabilitation services.
Date:   Apr 2000

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