Elderly people with bad heart breathlessness should be treated with timely medication, usually caused by heart disease need to seek timely medical attention. When there is heart failure, unstable angina, arrhythmia and other cardiovascular diseases, this kind of elderly people can appear the manifestation of cardiac insufficiency, chest tightness and shortness of breath, can be accompanied by edema, chest pain, etc., serious cases can be fainting shock, need to consult the cardiovascular internal medicine in a timely manner to improve the examination, for example, B-type natriuretic peptide, electrocardiogram, 24-hour dynamic electrocardiogram, cardiac ultrasound and so on. Depending on the condition, drugs such as nitroglycerin, furosemide, digoxin, amiodarone, etc. or other treatments can be used as prescribed by the doctor. It is recommended that elderly people with bad heart conditions who experience dyspnea should seek medical attention in time and follow the doctor’s instructions for medication, rather than taking medication blindly.