Ask a Health Professional Each week health professionals give their educated opinions on relatable health questions. We believe that knowledge is power! HFSCA HEART FAILURE SURVIVAL CENTER OF AMERICA Marinette 1281 Marinette Ave. Marinette, WI 54143 920-939-6058 Crivitz 515 N. U.S. Hwy. 141 Crivitz, WI 54114 715-854-7050 Dr. Yasser Salem Question: A New Plan for your Heart When it comes to your fatigue, leg weakness, swelling in your ankles A: or legs or feeling an irregualr'rapid heart beat are just just some symptoms that should be checked out by a physician (Cleveland Clinic, 2020). Feeling bloated, weight gain or having episodes of dizziness should also be reported before they lead to more severe problems. heart it is difficult to tell if what you'refeeling is an emergency or just a call the doctor's office. The American Heart Association published an excellent guide to help you make the right decision. The Adults already diagnossed with heart failure "Self-Check Plan for Heart Failure Management" is specifically designed to help adults with congestive heart failure determine symptoms that can avoid the doctor by following the American Heart Association's Self-Check Plan: www. riscabovehf.org (AHA, 2015). This plan outlines are normal and those that, if not dealt with, could how to maintain your plan of care with daily weight checks, assessing your breathing and cating low sodium foods. It also defines when to check in with your doctor and when your condition is severe enough to call 91I. Using lead to an emergency. In the simplest of terms, heart failure means that the heart is not pumping like it should. There are different kinds of heart failure depending on what parts of the heart are affected. Right sided heart failure occurs when the heart's chambers do not fully fill with blood and with left sided heart failure the heart can not pump this simple guide to notify your physician of a change in your condition, before your situation gets worse, will keep you out of the hospital enough oxygenated blood around the body (NIH, 2017). While heart failure is not quite that simple, and doing the things you love in the new year! there are many other variations of both right and left sided heart failure, this at least gives you an Kitt Cleereman, RN idea of what is happening. One thing is certain, heart failure, which ever version it is, causes HFSCA/Quantum Health American Heart Association. (2015). Self Check plan for hf management. www.riscabevehf.org long-term damage to your heart if left untreated. Cleveland Clink.(2020). Heart failure: Understanding heart fallures. https//myclevelandelinic.org/health There are currently 5.7 million Anericans diagnosed with heart failure and "550,000 new cases each year" (Cleveland Clinic, 2020). diseases/17069heart-fallure-understanding-heart-failure National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute The 2017 Wisconsin Health Public Health Profile for Marinette County showed heart disease as the leading cause of hospitalization (2017). Heart faihure. https://www.nhibi. nih govihealth-topics/heart-failure and death (DHS 2017). With heart discase and heart failure being so prevalent in Marinette County, watching out for symptoms of heart failure could save your life. Shortness of breath, Wisconsin Department of Health Services. (2017). Wisconsin public health profiles Marinetle county. https://www.dhs.wisconsin gov/ publications/pa/p15358-2017-marinette pdf Ask a Health Professional Each week health professionals give their educated opinions on relatable health questions. We believe that knowledge is power! HFSCA HEART FAILURE SURVIVAL CENTER OF AMERICA Marinette 1281 Marinette Ave. Marinette, WI 54143 920-939-6058 Crivitz 515 N. U.S. Hwy. 141 Crivitz, WI 54114 715-854-7050 Dr. Yasser Salem Question: A New Plan for your Heart When it comes to your fatigue, leg weakness, swelling in your ankles A: or legs or feeling an irregualr'rapid heart beat are just just some symptoms that should be checked out by a physician (Cleveland Clinic, 2020). Feeling bloated, weight gain or having episodes of dizziness should also be reported before they lead to more severe problems. heart it is difficult to tell if what you'refeeling is an emergency or just a call the doctor's office. The American Heart Association published an excellent guide to help you make the right decision. The Adults already diagnossed with heart failure "Self-Check Plan for Heart Failure Management" is specifically designed to help adults with congestive heart failure determine symptoms that can avoid the doctor by following the American Heart Association's Self-Check Plan: www. riscabovehf.org (AHA, 2015). This plan outlines are normal and those that, if not dealt with, could how to maintain your plan of care with daily weight checks, assessing your breathing and cating low sodium foods. It also defines when to check in with your doctor and when your condition is severe enough to call 91I. Using lead to an emergency. In the simplest of terms, heart failure means that the heart is not pumping like it should. There are different kinds of heart failure depending on what parts of the heart are affected. Right sided heart failure occurs when the heart's chambers do not fully fill with blood and with left sided heart failure the heart can not pump this simple guide to notify your physician of a change in your condition, before your situation gets worse, will keep you out of the hospital enough oxygenated blood around the body (NIH, 2017). While heart failure is not quite that simple, and doing the things you love in the new year! there are many other variations of both right and left sided heart failure, this at least gives you an Kitt Cleereman, RN idea of what is happening. One thing is certain, heart failure, which ever version it is, causes HFSCA/Quantum Health American Heart Association. (2015). Self Check plan for hf management. www.riscabevehf.org long-term damage to your heart if left untreated. Cleveland Clink.(2020). Heart failure: Understanding heart fallures. https//myclevelandelinic.org/health There are currently 5.7 million Anericans diagnosed with heart failure and "550,000 new cases each year" (Cleveland Clinic, 2020). diseases/17069heart-fallure-understanding-heart-failure National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute The 2017 Wisconsin Health Public Health Profile for Marinette County showed heart disease as the leading cause of hospitalization (2017). Heart faihure. https://www.nhibi. nih govihealth-topics/heart-failure and death (DHS 2017). With heart discase and heart failure being so prevalent in Marinette County, watching out for symptoms of heart failure could save your life. Shortness of breath, Wisconsin Department of Health Services. (2017). Wisconsin public health profiles Marinetle county. https://www.dhs.wisconsin gov/ publications/pa/p15358-2017-marinette pdf