Education
The good news is many heart and circulatory diseases are caused
by risk factors that can be controlled, treated or modified.
Risk factors are conditions or habits that increase your risk of
developing a disease. There are lots of different risk factors
which increase your possibility of coronary heart disease. These
include; high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol,
smoking, increased alcohol intake, being overweight, an unhealthy
diet, being stressed and being inactive. Understanding your risk
factors can help you make small changes which will make a big
difference to your health and wellbeing.
Educational talks to help you understand and manage the
different risk factors can be found below:
Your
heart
Exercise
in cardiac rehabilitation
Cardiac
medications
Healthy
heart diet
Mental
wellbeing
Stress
and relaxation
Psychological impact of living with a heart condition
Management of chronic
heart failure
Cardiac arrest education
A cardiac arrest is when the heart stops beating and cannot
circulate blood around the body and resuscitation is required.
During a cardiac arrest, the blood flow to your brain can be
limited and can cause some issues with cognition (thinking and
processing thoughts). The educational talks below are to help you
understand and manage after a cardiac arrest. Please note not all
information and symptoms discussed will be the same and relevant
for everyone.
Delirium
(confusion)
Cognition (thinking and
processing thoughts)
Returning to work
