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If you’re living with heart failure, you may need medicines to help keep your heart and body healthy.
If you’re in the hospital, medicine is often given through an IV (intravenous therapy).
If you are at home, or ready to leave the hospital, your medicines will be taken by mouth.

If you’re living with heart failure, you may need medicines to help keep your heart and body healthy. If you’re in the hospital, medicine is often given through an IV (intravenous therapy). If you are at home, or ready to leave the hospital, your medicines will be taken by mouth.

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By Mouth Therapy

While you’re in the hospital, medicine is often given through an IV. As your doctors prepare you to go home, they will change those medicines to be given by mouth. It is important that you take your medicines exactly as your doctor tells you to. Oral medicines should be given at the same time every day. You can use a pill box to keep your medicines organized.

Download and review our heart success informational handouts, and click on the images below to learn more about each type of medicine.