Other Cardiovascular Conditions

Learn how making a few changes in your lifestyle can help manage your angina.

Understand how coronary artery disease causes stable and unstable angina, and why immediate action is important when you experience angina or other symptoms of a possible heart attack.

Watch how coronary artery disease develops, leading to potential artery blockage and myocardial infarction, or heart attack.

When are heart attacks most likely to occur?

This program will help you to understand that if you have coronary artery disease, making healthy lifestyle changes and taking medications as directed can help you reduce your risk for a heart attack.

Learn the importance of taking immediate action if you or someone else is showing the symptoms of a heart attack.

Know the common emergency tests and treatments conducted on patients arriving to the hospital with heart attack symptoms.

After a heart attack, it is normal to worry about doing too much physical activity. Learn how to safely get physical activity in your daily life as you continue to recover.

Find out how statin medications help you to treat your heart disease and lessen your risk of having another heart attack.

Watch how to properly use nitroglycerin, in the event that you experience heart attack symptoms.

Find out which food choices are the best for heart health, and why making just a few changes in what and how much you eat can help you heal.

Understand the mix of emotions that are common after having a heart attack, learn healthful coping strategies and find out who you can to turn to for emotional support.

After a heart attack, it's very important to understand your risk factors. This program helps you identify cardiac risk factors you can change and take steps toward lowering your risk of another heart attack.

When you have heart disease, you may experience a symptom called angina. This program helps you learn how to recognize angina, take steps to prevent angina, and treat it if you experience it.

When you leave the hospital after a heart attack it's important that you follow-up with your doctor and the rest of your healthcare team. Making the most of that visit is an important part of making sure that you stay on the road to recovery.

No one wants to have to go back to the hospital after discharge. "Avoiding Hospital Readmissions: Heart Attack" explains the patient's role in preventing unnecessary hospital readmissions. This program includes critical information on how to better understand discharge instructions and continued recovery at home. Patients can review a discharge checklist that explains what they need to know before they go home.

It's important for a hospital patient to be active in his own healthcare. As a hospital patient make sure that you are prepared before you go home. In Part 2, review the checklist that will make doing that easier.

It's a relief to leave the hospital, but a patient should also plan carefully for the return home. Make sure all the bases are covered including who to call if there is a problem. Part 3 provides tips to make the return home easier.

Recovery really begins when a patient gets home. Often diet, exercise and new medications are part of the equation. In Part 4, find out what steps you can take to recover faster.

Having a heart attack can be a major event. In addition to recommending lifestyle changes, doctors often add many new medications in order to help people live longer with less symptoms, and to decrease the chances that they'll have another heart attack. It is important to manage these medications and communicate openly with your doctor about any questions or concerns you have.

If you've had a heart attack, you need to take special care of your body and mind. Know what to expect when you return home, including what activities are OK to do; how to deal with depression; how to take care of your heart with food, exercise, and medicine; and when to call the doctor.

Too much stress can increase your risk of a heart attack. Learn how to recognize when you're under chronic, dangerous stress and what steps you can take to reduce the amount of stress in your daily life.

Being discharged from the hospital after having a heart attack is a great step in your recovery. This program will help you to understand what the next steps are and by following your discharge instructions you are doing all you can to help heal.

Watch what you can do to help prevent deep vein thrombosis while you recover at home.

Learn the lifestyle changes and daily activities that will help reduce your risk of developing deep vein thrombosis.