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Up-to-date information on available and forthcoming medicaland surgical treatments.

How attitude and emotion affect heart failure--and what you can do to staypositive.

Tips for adopting a heart-healthy diet and lifestyle.

Ways to forge a positive working relationship with your doctor orcardiologist.

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Help for those suffering with heart failure
This book is truly informative and helpful.Reading it has empowered me to take steps to be able to live with the frighteneing diagnosis of heart failure.The suggestions given are practical and helpful. By reading the book, I was able to find support groups on line--most helpful. I heartily (pun intended!) recommend it for anyone who has been diagnosed with heart failure.

The need to know basics of heart failure
I bought this for my wife who has postpartum cardiomyopathy so we could really understand what the cardiologist was saying and doing.Prior to reading it we had been concerned that our cardiologist wasn't engaging us in many "standard" heart failure treatments that we had researched which might improve her daily quality of life. This book really helped my wife and I understand all the CHF jargon and, most importantly, what the heart meds do and how they are supposed towork in the body.Because of this book and other research we have engaged another cardiologist for a second opinion and learned that there are indeed other treatments and therapies available to us.Net Net - this book helps you engage in knowledgeable conversations with your doctor which is key to your survival and successful treatment.
4 stars only because I wish the author had expounded more on some of the topics.

an excellent resource
This book is an excellent resource for those suffering from heart failure or families trying to understand this disease.I highly recommend it for a resource if not reading it in its entirity.Chapter 11 on foods and salt intake is especially helpful if one has the determination to follow good advice!Success With Heart Failure: Help and Hope for Those Coping With Congestive Heart FailureThe book is so inexpensive that seems foolish not to buy it as a resource!

Helping to cope with heart failure
I have been researching several pieces of literature and books regarding CHF.
This book was my first choice.I was not disappointed. The book was in pristine
condition and it was exactly what I was looking for.I was extremely pleased.

Excellent source of information
We learned a lot of useful information about medications and treatments, and what was happening to my husband's body. It gave him some hope when he needed it. ... Read more

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This book provides readers with authoritative, practical answers to questions about congestive heart failure, including causes, diagnosis, treatment options, quality of life, care giving, sources of support, and much more. ... Read more

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Witty explanations and amusing illustrations — along with authoritative advice — allow nurses and other health care professionals to quickly sharpen their skills the Incredibly Easy! way. Features an eight-page, color guide to pathophysiology. Contents include understanding heart failure, preventing heart failure, assessing patients with heart failure, treating patients with heart failure, heart failure complications, and teaching patients with heart failure. ... Read more

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Great comprehensive review on heart failure
I am a 3rd semester nursing student and I really found this book helpful.I was tired of reading my stale textbook so I read this book. It covered every aspect you need to know on the physiology of heart failure, assessment findings, treatment; it had quick quizzes, and many great animations.I recommend this book to all nursing students studying heart failure.

Easy-to-read pocket guide
This easy-to-read pocketguide is well written and visually appealing - making it a good quick read and effective reference tool. From drug charts and quick quizzes to patient exam techniques and recognizing heart failure complications this book covers the bases. I appreciated the section on"getting connected" that directed me to some good heart failure websitesfor professionals and for patients. ... Read more

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Kissed by Death is a self help book based on the authors own story and illness. The book addresses the technical aspects of CHF; causes, symptoms, diagnosis and medications. It talks about simple aerobic and resistance weight training exercises to strengthen the body including the heart. It focuses on fat in the diet, foods, reading ingredient labels, low sodium diets and building sodium databases. The second half of the book deals with the Mediterranean diet and profiles the author's own low-sodium, good-carb, Mediterranean Style Eating Plan, a version of the Mediterranean diet which has been essential to the success of his recovery. ... Read more

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Kissed by Death: Congestive Heart Failure
Kissed by Death is a self help book based on the authors own story and illness. The book addresses the technical aspects of CHF; causes, symptoms, diagnosis and medications. It talks about simple aerobic and resistance weight training exercises to strengthen the body including the heart. It focuses on fat in the diet, foods, reading ingredient labels, low sodium diets and building sodiumdatabases. The second half of the book deals with the Mediterranean diet and profiles the author's own low-sodium, good-carbs, Mediterranean Style Eating Plan, a version of the Mediterranean diet which has been essential to the success of his recovery.
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The field's foremost authorities offer guidance on the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and pacemakers for the management of congestive heart failure. They explain how these devices work; examine the patient-and device-selection process; review implant techniques, and outline aftercare. This concise resource makes this complex subject easy to understand. ... Read more

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Excellent description of practical Biventricular pacemaker
If you want to go deeper in your understanding of how Bi-V pacer works, how to adjust its setting (including the use of echo to optimize timing), and how to put that wire in tough coronary sinus anatomy: you will be glad you get this book...or get a rep to buy it for you.Before you read this book, you should know the basic of pacemaker programming, because it is not really for beginner (read Hayes Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation first).Very well written, and worth every penny. ... Read more

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Resynchronization and Defibrillation for Heart Failure: A Practical Approach is one of the first texts to provide caregivers with information about the background and application of this new and rapidly expanding discipline. Its four authors are cardiologists who have expertise in device management, electrophysiology, and heart failure management. The text integrates the approach and management experience of the authors’ three institutions. The aim is to bring together information from subspecialists in device management, electrophysiology, and heart failure management in an effort to facilitate the care of the patient with CRT. ... Read more

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Each year over 400,000 people have a new onset of heart failurein the United States, adding to a current patient population of over4.8 million Americans. Basics of Heart Failure takes aproblem-solving approach to examining heart failure and to providingthe reader with an up-to-date account of our knowledge in this area.Chapters on the diagnosis and therapy of heart failure emphasize datafrom recent multicenter trials. ... Read more

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Providing optimal care for heart failure patients is a complex challenge that requires cooperation and coordination across multiple disciplines. Now, you can apply the successful techniques pioneered at the Cleveland Clinic, which are carefully explored and explained in this text.

Drs. McCarthy and Young draw on their experience to show how an interdisciplinary team works together to:
• arrive at a proper diagnosis
• initiate medical therapy
• make decisions regarding the best use of percutaneous therapies, surgical therapies, electrical therapies, and the use of mechanical circulatory support devices and transplantation.

Throughout the book, they present the most updated evidence for both drug trials and surgical trials. They emphasize the benefits of performing the most complete surgery that is practical, then continuing medical therapy. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of treatment, but the authors recognize that the best way to manage an individual patient is often to adapt a variety of different therapies. They state their opinions clearly, identifying which part of care is science and which is art.
Heart Failure: A Combined Medical and Surgical Approach is a true collaboration that helps you identify the most effective strategies – operative interventions, pacing and ICD treatment, new diagnostic tools, and pharmacotherapeutic developments – and implement them for your patients. ... Read more

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Our Roller Coaster Ride is about the last six years of my husband's life. He had a tough battle with congestive heart failure. We had very eventful, harassing and hurtful times, yet some were also beautiful. There are so many memories that have been created. My times, his disease brought smiles, but also tears. I had a hard time coping with his illness. At times, I thought that I was the only one this was happening to, but after talking to the hospital staff, I found out that maybe I wasn't. I wrote this book to let others know that they are not alone, and maybe some of my experiences or bits of advice will help you cope better than I did at times. We always have to remember that there is so much wrong with them, and we will never understand what they are going through. We are their backbone and support, so we have to always stay strong for them. Good luck to all. ... Read more

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I am a living product of Dick Quinns first book.
I wanted to see what Dick Quinn added to his currant book and how he was doing today.I followed his advice in the first book in 1995, just out of the hospital myself with a heart attack, I have not experienced ANY further heart problems to date. The herbs in combination work 100%. I thank him for his courage in sharing his experience with us all.

This Book is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Read this one after "Left for Dead" and all I can say is that Mr QUINN has done an awful lot for me. I have several copies of both of his books to re-read, loan out and to just have. I recommend this book as highly as "Left for Dead".

An excellent followup to "Left for Dead"! A must-read!
I completely concur with clangley's review of this book. Death by Deception is the followup book to Dick Quinn's earlier book Left for Dead. In this book, Dick's daughter explains how congestive heart failure is most frequently there waiting for the person who survives a heart attack. She elaborates how cayenne saved her father's life, but how her father relied on it too exclusively to keep him alive and subsequently didn't make the lifestyle changes necessary for him to avoid eventual heart failure. She then goes into excellent detail describing how heart failure develops and what exactly it is. She describes all of the conventional treatments for heart failure and elaborates on the strengths and ultimate weaknesses of these conventional treatments. She then describes a regimen of using natural herbs--including of course cayenne--that help keep both heart attack and congestive heart failure at bay.

I've recommended this book to I don't know how many people. I consider this book a must-read for any male over the age of 35, and a must-read for any female who's approaching menopause, the time heart disease creeps up on many unsuspecting women.

If you don't ever plan on living this long, forget this book! Otherwise, whip out your credit card and order it already!!

A valuable book on congestive heart failure (CHF)
I knew Dick Quinn well. I knew him very well. He was a good friend.

I saw Dick struggle with CHF -- the ultimate outcome of heart disease -- and I saw him recover using an exotic African herb that lengthened his life andmade his struggle with this terrible life-threatening illness far lesspainful.For most, a diagnosis of CHF is a death sentence, but this bookgives hope.

This book is the only one of its kind that shows victims ofCHF how to get a life sentence instead of a death sentence.

Dick'shighly successful lifelong struggle with heart disease and its ultimateoutcome - CHF - is an inspiration to anyone struggling with this terriblelife-threatening disease. Dick extended his life for many precious days(years actually) using a variety of herbs that modern medicine is reluctantto embrace. Some of these herbs had instant and immediate impact on hisvitality. I know because I saw it.

If you have, or know of someone withCHF, this book can help significantly lessen the suffering, and increaselifespans. ... Read more

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Written by recognized leaders in the field, Congestive Heart Failure, ThirdEdition is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference on all basic and clinical aspects of heart failure. Coverage includes an entire section on pharmacologic therapy and a twenty-chapter section on clinical approaches to acute and chronic heart failure.re. This edition has new chapters on impactand t reatment of comorbidities, prevention of sudden cardiac death, This edition has new chapters on impact and treatment of comorbidities, prevention of sudden cardiac death, rationale for use of anticoagulants, ultrafiltration, use of mechanical devices, and gene and cell therapy. Readers will find up-to-date information on genetics, surgical therapies, ventricular synchronization, defibrillator therapy, mechanical approaches to atrial fibrillation, left ventricular assist devices, ventricular support and ventricular remodeling surgery, and myocardial regeneration/cell transplantation. ... Read more

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Excellent overview of activities in adult stem cell world
I was really surprised when I read this book at how many meaningful adult stem cell programs the author found. He does a nice job describing the processes and the basic theories behind the techniques he describes. I work in this field and found this book to be helpful to me as well.

A Report on Stem Cell Research in Heart Disease
In spite of our President's view on stem cell research, it appears that research is continuing. Much of it, according to Mr. Christian is not using embryonic cells but the cells from our own body. It also appears that the results have been startling. As best I can tell, none of these procedures has made it to the point yet where they are approved treatments for the general public. Instead this is a book that describes the ongoing research being conducted at a number of heart institutes.

The author specifically states, 'nothing you will be presented in this book is offered to replace or supercede your doctor's advice or treatment plan for you.'

The best overall advice I can give is to not plan to have your heart troubles for another ten or twenty years when (hopefully) some of these treatments are of proven value and approved as safe. But it certainly looks like the times they are a chang'n. ... Read more

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High Cholesterol -- the Vast Hoax
There is probably no book more important in current literature than Mr. Moore's Book.

The fact that it is out of print tells a vast story about the forces at work.

Heart disease is still the number one killer -- about half of all Americans die from it. The orthodox truth about heart disease has changed but only slightly over the past twenty years -- the "truth" still is that heart disease is claimed to be caused by cholesterol that is too high, that the proper solution is eat a diet that is low in cholesterol, which means low on zero eggs and butter, and that only when people fail on this diet should they then consider going on to a life-time of the most profitable drugs in the history of pharmaceuticals -- a cholesterol-lowering drug. These drugs are currently selling at the rate of about $10 billion per year, and the recent government announcement that about 300% more people should be on these drugs adds to the importance of this subject.

Mr. Moore actually read the so-called scientific reports on which this vast deception is based -- the original reports of the Framingham Studies.These studies were very often falsely reported as finding that cholesterol in the diet caused cholesterol in the blood (Moore proved that these studies claimed the opposite, despite how they were publicized). These Framingham Sudies then "showed" that high cholesterol in the blood led to death by heart disease.Mr. Moore found, within the very reports used to support these false claims, the truth that has never been reported.

The current theory of heart disease, and certainly the entire methodology of treatment is a farce -- easily proven by looking at less than a dozen different facts that cannot be refuted.

Bypass surgery, currently on the hit list by the drug companies, was positioned as the last recourse for those who "failed" on the no-egg diet, and who didn't respond (as, of course, they would not) to the cholesterol-lowering drugs -- those who failed on these two early treatments would be caught in the safety net of bypass surgery.

Bypass surgery is also demolished in Moore's book, but who is reading?

Bypass surgery has been the most profitable surgery in the history of medicine.

Now that the drug companies have a new generation of cholesterol-lowering drugs, and are posed to collect money from more than 30 million Americans who have the "disease" of high cholesterol, the master planners can and will move bypass surgery out of the scene -- using up the money spent there for drugs.

If you are avoiding eggs and butter, then you have not read this book, and you have swallowed the lies put out with billions of dollars of false promotional claims.

Find and read a copy of this important Book.

Mostmedical treatments for the heart are wrong .
I found this book absolutely fascinating.Very hard to put down as he methodically debunks all but a few popular procedures for people with heart problems. The author examines numerous, medically accepted treatments for ailing hearts, including: bypass surgery, angioplasty, treating high cholesterol, blood thinners, defribulation and others.Hepaints a picture of a greedy AMA and associated members of the medical fraternity.All but two of the medical procedures he reviews have sufficient clinical statistics to make them the treatment of choice for extending life.The two, blood thinners and defribulation are the only ones, he believes, that indeed are the best choice of treatment for the conditions given.He paints a picture of a medical establishment that is fooling the public and growing rich with unnecessary surgery or high priced medical treatments that are life threatening themselves.

A very sobering look at one of mankinds great killersthat allows few patients to have all the information they need to make the proper decisions in life threatening situations.A picture of money grubbing medical professionals who cut and prescribe based on a robot like following of their medical professional society dogma.

I haven't been able to find any books rebutting Mr. Moores allegations.On the other hand, I have read many sad stories of the cost of treatmentand deaths of many.I only hope one does not find themselves in one of these life threatening situations.Even your trusted medical professional may not have the information they need when you have a serious problem.A sorry state, if true. ... Read more

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The definitive one-stop guide to treating-and preventing-heart failure

This practical reference provides all the expert guidance and up-to-the-minute clinical perspectives you need to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with heart failure. A major focus of the book is integration of various management approaches to maximize patient benefit.Coverage begins with a brief introduction on the incidence and causes of heart failure, then quickly moves into a more thorough clinical overview of symptom evaluation; pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment methods; hospitalization; surgical treatments; and more.

Features:

• Clear, step-by-step coverage of prevention and all treatment modalities with evidence-based recommendations
• Full examination of the types of heart failure, prevalence, morbidity and associated co-morbidities, mortality, risk factors, etiologies, cardiomyopathies, and pathophysiology
• Key perspectives on the use of ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, aldosterone antagonists, IV vasoactive medications, diuretics, digitalis, surgical procedures and devices, and more
• Need-to-know procedures for patient evaluation
• Heart failure disease management programs and pathways of care that can be applied in any practice setting
• Clinically relevant diagrams, figures, and algorithms ... Read more

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This book provides a complete, easy-to-use handbook for nurses who see patients with heart failure. In recent years heart failure has become a high priority in health care. With more nurses caring for patients with heart failure and making decisions that are often complex, there is a clear need for those nurses to have access to good quality clinical information and guidance. This book is designed to be a practical, ‘one-stop’, handbook for the practitioner, supported by case studies and up-todate references throughout, providing all the topics the Practitioner or student may need in their work with patients with heart failure. ... Read more

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Now in its fourth edition, the Atlas of Heart Failure provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of normal cardiacfunction, the mechanisms of dysfunction in heart failure, and the therapeutic approaches that are available to manage the syndrome.Designed to provide a detailed and comprehensive visula exposition of all aspects of cardiac function and dysfunction, this atlas contains several hundred images, each accompanied by detailed captions, carefully selected by expert authors, and reviewed by the author. ... Read more

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Heart failure has emerged as a major cardiovascular health problem. Over the past several decades, it has become apparent that one of the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with congestive heart failure relates to cardiac arrhythmias. Over the past decade increasing data have accumulated defining the pathogenesis of these problems at cellular and molecular levels, in addition to the clinical setting. Clinical cardiology has become progressively subdivided into more highly specialized domains, yet the modern management of the heart failure patient crosses these boundaries. Given the cross-disciplinary nature of heart failure management, the Atlas of Electrophysiology in Heart Failure, which explores current concepts in the interface between heart failure and electrophysiology, comes at a timely juncture. ... Read more

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The latest books in the What You Should Know series will educate the general public on the most common medical disorders. Each book explains, at an extremely understandable level, the most important information to help consumers recognize how certain disorders affect the body, who is at risk and what treatment options are available. Full color illustrations throughout each book ensure that the reader will fully understand all topics. The series editor Douglas L. Wetherill has collaborated with an outstanding collection of physicians who are leaders in their areas. The outcome is these guides for healthier living. ... Read more