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![]() | Decision Points focus on key medical care decisions that are important to many health problems. |
| Heart failure: Should I get a pacemaker? | |
| Heart failure: Should I get an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD)? | |
| Actionsets are designed to help people take an active role in managing a health condition. | |
| Anticoagulants: Vitamin K and your diet | |
| Heart failure: Activity and exercise | |
| Heart failure: Avoiding medicines that make symptoms worse | |
| Heart failure: Avoiding triggers for sudden heart failure | |
| Heart failure: Checking your weight | |
| Heart failure: Eating less salt | |
| Heart failure: Taking medicines properly | |
| Heart failure: Watching your fluids | |
| Heart problems: Living with a pacemaker or ICD | |
| Low-salt diets: Eating out | |
| Oxygen therapy: Using oxygen at home | |
Last Updated:
August 25, 2008- Author:
- Robin Parks, MS
- Medical Review:
- Caroline S. Rhoads, MD - Internal Medicine
Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD - Cardiology
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