This book is a comprehensive and empowering book on heart disease that offers a complete picture of managing and living with heart disease. The book, which expands on a previous edition, A Patient's Guide to Hearth Rhythm Problem, published by JHU Press, explores many guideline-based practices, while also sharing supplemental therapies that patients may have otherwise not known about and benefit from including osteopathic therapy, yoga/meditation, mindfulness, etc. Chapters take a deep dive to such procedures as tilt table testing, electrophysiology studies, catheter ablation, and device implantation (including cardiac monitors, pacemakers, defibrillators, and biventricular devices)

explains the essentials of CPR and the use of Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs)

and presents the latest guidelines from the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the Heart Rhythm Society. Surviving and Thriving With Heart Disease will be a valuable resource for practicing clinicians treating patients with cardiovascular disease as well as nurse practitioners, other medical professionals, and patients.