Heart Failure Self-Care Tools

Know when to seek help. Download Hoag’s Heart Failure Management Tool.

• Weigh yourself daily in the morning after emptying your bladder and before eating (Download the Heart Failure Weight and Symptom Log)
• Take medications as directed
• Avoid all NSAIDs (Advil, Motrin, Aleve)
• Maintain a 2000 mg sodium diet per day
• Restrict fluids per health care provider (HCP)
• Exercise as recommended by the health care provider
• Attend routine medical follow-up visits
• Notify health care provider about cold or flu symptoms
• Receive flu and pneumonia vaccines
• Abstain from alcohol consumption
• Smoking cessation
• Stress management

Ask your doctor if you are a candidate for the Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Program.