 Lifestyle Changes Can help a patient suffering from: ◦ Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Attacks & Congestive Heart Failure  Reduce amount of salt intake  Eat Healthier  Exercise  Keep blood pressure under control  Stop Smoking  Limit Alcohol

 Blood Thinners  Hypertension  Antiarrythmatics  Cholesterol Lowering  Rate Control  Vasodilators

 Defibrillation: ◦ When a electronic device gives an electric shock to the heart to help establish normal contraction rhythm  AED devices are now in schools  Cardioversion: ◦ Used in emergency situations to electrically or chemically shock the heart out of abnormal heart rhythms  Mostly associated with low blood pressure, faintness, loss of consciousness and difficulty breathing

 Stents ◦ Tube placed in an artery to help keep the passageway open  Transplants ◦ When a doctor removes a diseased or defected heart and replaces it with a donor heart.  The success rate varies and the person receives the heart can have many complications  Bypass Surgeries ◦ Arteries from another region of the patients body are moved to the area of the heart in order to improve blood supply and flow