How to Prepare for your Doctor's Visit - Congestive Heart Failure Monitoring

My video tells you how to prepare for your doctor's visit when you have congestive heart failure. I will explain to you how to successfully monitor your congestive heart failure or CHF as it is more commonly known. I will tell you what you need to bring to be prepared for your doctor's visit. The most important data that you need to prepare for your doctor's visit to successfully monitor your congestive heart failure are reviewed. I will explain how you should monitor your weight, blood pressure, pulse, symptoms, medication list and many others. The importance of a heart healthy diet, salt, fluid intake as well as glucose intake if you have diabetes. Sleep, exercise, smoking and alcohol consumption are also reviewed. I will explain which symptoms are important including shortness of breath, ankle swelling, chest pain, palpitations, lightheadedness, dizziness and weight gain. Medications including diuretics for the treatment of congestive heart failure are discussed. I will review an action plan so that you understand when your heart failure is under good control and when you need to talk to your doctor or go to the emergency room. Congestive heart failure monitoring and congestive heart failure treatment is important to keep you healthy and prevent hospitalization.

0:00 Introduction
0:28 Information to bring.
0:58 Weight.
1:52 Blood Pressure and Pulse.
5:54 Symptoms.
8:17 Medication list.
10:30 Other Information to bring.
13:23 Self check plan for Heart Failure management

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Dr. Keith Moran MD, RCPSC, DABIM, RCS, NBE Biography:
I am a consultant in Internal Medicine with special medical interests in gastroenterology, cardiology, and echocardiography. I am a a full-time practising physician in these areas. I was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, Trinity College where I received a number of scholarships including one for top student at Trinity College. I attended medical school at the University of Toronto graduating with a gold medal. My internship was completed at McMaster University in Hamilton followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Western Ontario in London. I then completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. I have active staff privileges and work as a consultant at my hospital managing the intensive care unit and providing consultative care in all hospital departments. I am a past clinical preceptor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. I am an active echocardiographer who has been certified and recertified by the National Board of Echocardiography. I am certified in cardiac sonography and have trained and completely educated a number of cardiac sonographers. I am the medical director of my cardiology laboratory which was established in 2001. My laboratory performs echocardiography and stress echocardiography amongst other tests. I maintain my certification in the American Board of Internal Medicine.

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