Ebook Heart Attack: A Guide To Your Recovery
Having a heart attack is quite common. How each person deals with it and what their recovery is like varies a great deal for many reasons. Many people experience some difficulty concentrating and retaining information in the early stages of having a heart attack, so don’t worry if you can’t take everything in. This is why it is important to have some written information to remind yourself and your family about what is likely to happen and why.
This booklet is designed to give you some guidance about what is happening to you, what to expect and to answer some of the frequently asked questions. It is intended to provide a general background to the experience of heart attack and you should not hesitate to discuss any problems or worries you have with the nurses and doctors who are looking after you.
Contents
What happened:
- Introduction
- Understand the facts
- How the heart works
- Coronary heart disease
- Prevention – risk factors
Physical Recovery:
- First few hours
- First few days
- Life in the Coronary Care Unit
- Life in the ward
- Fears and worries
- Discharge home
- Complications
- First few weeks
- Home exercises and walking
- Advice about safe and unsafe activities
- Cardiac rehabilitation programmes
- Back to normal and long term exercise
- programme
Getting back to everyday life:
- Emotional recovery
- Depression
- Coping with stress
- Returning to work
- Driving
- Your sex life
- Air travel
- Information for family and friends
Risk factors:
- Smoking
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol level
- Eating a healthy diet
- Exercise
- Being overweight
- Moderate alcohol intake
- Reducing and controlling stress
Reference section:
- Home exercises
- Six week progress check
- Commonly used heart drugs
- Information about heart tests
- Glossary of words used in heart disease
- Useful addresses
- Daily Exercise and Activity record sheets
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