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Living with Heart Failure

Living with Heart Failure. ROTHERHAM. There are 2,081 people in Rotherham = 5.2% of population (national expected is 4.5%) with confirmed heart failure. The prevalence of heart failure is 9 per 1000 population and nationally 7 per 1000 population.

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Living with Heart Failure

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  1. Living with Heart Failure

  2. ROTHERHAM • There are 2,081 people in Rotherham = 5.2% of population (national expected is 4.5%) with confirmed heart failure. • The prevalence of heart failure is 9 per 1000 population and nationally 7 per 1000 population

  3. The heart’s job is to pump blood around the body

  4. What is Heart Failure? • Heart failure is a term we use to describe a set of symptoms that occur when your heart fails to deliver as much blood and oxygen around your body

  5. What is Heart Failure? • Having heart failure means that for some reason, your heart is not pumping blood around the body as well as it used to.

  6. Short video!!

  7. What causes Heart Failure • Damage can be sudden or it can happen over months or years

  8. Some causes of heart failure are: • Heart attack • High blood pressure • Problems with your heart valves • Irregular heart rhythm • Drinking too much alcohol • Disease of the heart muscle – cardiomyopathy

  9. Main symptom of heart failure = Fluid retention

  10. WARNING SIGNS of “decompensation”

  11. Sudden weight increase

  12. Ankle swelling

  13. Shortness of breath or increasing shortness of breath

  14. Needing more pillows to sleep

  15. Awaking at night breathless

  16. Cough

  17. Waistband tightening

  18. Treatment • Medication • Devices

  19. ~What can you do?? • Daily Weight • Early detection and treatment

  20. What Rotherham can do for you 1. HELP - Heart failure Education and Learning Programme • Support Group • Exercise • Community Heart failure Service

  21. Mending broken Hearts

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