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The Open Heart Companion:
Preparation and Guidance for Open-Heart Surgery Recovery
Maggie Lichtenberg, PCC, Open Heart Publishing, 2006

Use this book

• to plan for open-heart surgery and home recovery, or,
• to guide you from the time you leave the hospital to when you regain sufficient strength to begin a cardiac rehab program -- the four to eight weeks after surgery.

Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster: A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques
Peggy Huddleston, Angel River Press, Paperback book, $14.95;
Relaxation CD, $19.95; Relaxation audio-tape, $9.95

Open Heart:  A Patient’s Story of Life-Saving Medicine
and Life-Giving Friendship
Jay Neugeboren, Houghton Mifflin, 2003

Healing from the Heart: A Leading Surgeon Combines Eastern and Western Traditions to Create the Medicine of the Future
Mehmet Oz, MD, Plume, 1999

• American Heart Association
  
  
• HeartInfo.org
  
  
• Heart Center Online
  
  
• HealthScout.com
  
  
• Adult Congenital Heart Association
  
  
• The Mended Hearts, Inc.
  Encouragement to heart patients, their families and caregivers.
  
  
• www.Healthgrades.com
  To check surgeon quality: a quick read on hospitals or to check physician’s
  history and training
  
  
• www.ChoiceTrust.com
  Open Heart Surgery Report
  Make sure the surgeon you’re seeing has no disciplinary actions.
  
  
• www.MedlinePlus.gov
  To find research about your condition. Jointly provided by the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
  
  
• see also: www.healthfinder.gov