heart supply different portions of the circulation. Additionally, the most common cause of right-sided heart failure is left-sided heart failure. Left-sided failure ❖ Dyspnea (shortness of breath) on exertion (dyspnée d'effort) and in severe cases, dyspnea at rest ❖ Increasing breathlessness on lying flat, called orthopnea, occurs. ❖ Paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea also known as "cardiac asthma", a sudden nighttime attack of severe breathlessness, usually several hours after going
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Introduction Congestive heart failure (CHF), also called chronic heart failure or congestive cardiac failure (CCF) is a clinical condition where heart muscle is weakened and cannot pump the blood as well as the normal heart. The ventricle, also known as main pumping chamber of the heart become larger or thicker which leads to inability to contract or relax as it should. “There is no universally agreed definition of heart failure (Denolin et al., 1983). It is the consequence of cardiac disease, diagnosis
congestive heart failure (CHF) will often be admitted to the hospital when complications arise. This is often the case because treatments (such as intravenous medications) needed to deal with the various complications of CHF require interventions that need to be administered by a team of medical staff with close monitoring of the patient. According to the CDC website report Hospitalizations for Congestive Heart Failure: United States 2000 -2010, 5.8 million people suffer from CHF in the United States
Case Study 3 – Congestive Heart Failure Patient Case Question 1. Based on the limited amount of information given above, do you suspect that this patient has developed left-sided CHF, right-sided CHF, or total CHF? right-sided CHF Patient Case Question 2. How did you arrive at your answer to Question 1? right-sided CHF = fluid may back up into your abdomen, legs and feet, causing swelling. Patient Case Question 3. What is a likely cause for this patient’s heart failure? Increasing
RESULTS The baseline study of the elderly study sample are as shown in the given table. It can be observed that three-fifths of the total sample were composed of women, and also an expression of the high prevalence of diabetes, antihypertensive treatment, and CVD are evident. Table 1: Baseline characteristics of the study sample Characteristic Value Clinical features Women (%) 62.3 Age (years) 79.0 ± 4.5 Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) 143 ± 21 Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) 72
(NOC), and Nursing Intervention Classification (NIC) (de Lima Lopes, de Barros, & Marlene Michel, 2009). This paper aims to provide a brief outline of these standardized terminologies (STs) as they relate to a patient with congestive heart failure (CHF), to identify the elements of NANDA-I, NIC, and NOC, and describe the data, information, knowledge and wisdom (DIKW) used during the process. NANDA-I, NOC and NIC Elements The University of Iowa developed The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association
Case Study - Congestive Heart Failure Diagnosed with Congestive cardiomyopathy implies that the patient’s heart muscle has been debilitated by ailment and cannot sufficiently pump blood through the heart, which can lead to heart failure (“Columbia University Medical Center”, 2016). In this case study, the current situation of a male patient Mr. P., who is 76 years old, and frequently hospitalized with CHF is given. The purpose of this paper is to describe an approach to care with treatment plan
ability in their heart as they age. The serious case of heart failure develops when other health conditions cause the heart to work harder or become damaged due to increased stress. Heart failure is usually a chronic disease. It gradually tends to become worse. By the time someone is diagnosed with it, the heart has most likely begun to lose pumping capacity for quits some time. Nearly five million Americans are living with heart failure and 550,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. This paper will discuss
in patients with chronic heart failure. Patients suffering from chronic heart failure (CHF) often suffer from a decreased aerobic exercise capacity and exercise intolerance, which leads to a progressive deterioration in functional capacity (Belardinelli et al. 1999). This review will focus on four controlled clinical studies which have examined the effect of exercise training on VO2 max in patients with CHF. Coats et al. (1992) compared a phase of normal activity to a training period in a group