When the Heart Gets Tired:How Heart Failure Can Lead to Sudden Death. 💬 BEFORE WE BEGIN — A WORD FROM YOUR NURSEDear community,I want to talk to you today about something that frightens many people when they hear the words — heart failure. But I want you to know from the very first paragraph: this…
Understanding, Prevention & Self-Management (Including its connection to sudden cardiac death) â‘ WHAT IS HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE? The definition: High blood pressure — known medically as hypertension — is a condition in which the force of blood pushing against the walls of your arteries is persistently too high. Blood pressure is not a disease that…
A simple, step-by-step guide to getting numbers you can actually trust — so you and your doctor are making decisions based on the truth, not a fluke reading. Where your number lands depends on how well you measure it. Why does technique even matter? In our last post, we talked about why sudden cardiac events…