Pre-admission visits to the hospital are a good time to ask about any additional help you need. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario. This organization has booklets, fact sheets, cookbooks, group programs and special events for heart patients. American Heart Association. Like the Heart and Stroke Foundation, this organization offers printed information, a toll-free telephone line and an Internet site.
Medical journals publish information on research in cardiac care.
Hospital libraries often have subscriptions to these journals and indexes of their contents. The vast Medline index is available in major hospital libraries and on the Internet through the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine. This document was last revised on November 29, 2000.