Heart Transplantation And Heart Failure

The artificial heart supports the body just like a normal heart would, pumping blood around the body. The artificial hearts are used when the original heart is damaged and needs time to recover. The artificial heart can replace the function of the person’s original heart for either a short period of time while a donor heart is being sort or for the duration of the person’s life.

Systolic heart failure is characterized by enlarged ventricles that are unable to fully contract to pump enough blood into circulation to adequately perfuse tissues. The enlargement in ventricles is due to an increased end-systolic volume. If the heart is not able to sufficiently pump the expected volume of blood with each contraction, which in a normal healthy heart is 50-60%, there will be a residual volume left in the heart after every pump (Heart Healthy Women, 2012). With the next period of filling, the heart will receive the same amount of blood volume from the atria combined with that residual volume from the previous contraction. This causes the ventricles to have to dilate to accommodate this increase in volume. The dilation causes the walls of the ventricles to stretch and become thin and weak. Also the myocardium, the muscle layer of the heart, will stretch and not be able to adequately make a full and forceful enough contraction to push blood from the ventricles (Lehne, 2010).

Although these interventions may improve immediate survival in the short term, only coronary artery revascularization and cardiac transplantation have been shown to improve long-term survival.” (DeMarco & Chatterjee, 1993)

Throughout time Organ transplanting has been an important medical procedure that has been present, not only in the United States, but around the globe. It is the process of surgically removing an organ from on patient and then transplanting it into the other. This practice is usually used when a recipient’s own organ fails to function properly or has

Mechanical inadequacy; caused by inability of heart to pump and circulate blood; results in fluid collection in the lungs, hypertension, congestion, and edema of tissues. (Hart, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, Stegman, MBA, CCS, and Ford, RHIT, CCS)

The heart is an organ that pumps oxygenated blood to the body and deoxygenated blood to the lungs. Heart failure is when the heart can’t pump blood very well. If the heart fails to work properly, a major system called the circulatory system won’t work properly and therefore the whole human body will fail to work properly because the cells won’t be able get oxygenated blood and use the oxygen to undergo cellular respiration and make energy.

muscles run out of oxygenated blood and the arteries cannot keep up with the demand because of

Heart failure (HF) is a complex syndrome in which structural or functional cardiac disorders impair the ability of one or both ventricles to fill with or eject blood. HF is considered to be a chronic condition with periods of worsening symptoms that may require medical attention. It may present acutely within just 24 hours in the form of pulmonary edema or even cardiogenic shock. To diagnose HF, three criteria need to be present: including shortness of breath at rest or during exertion and/or fatigue, signs of fluid retention such as pulmonary congestion and/or ankle swelling, and objective evidence of a decrease in myocardial performance at rest which is demonstrated using echocardiography.(1)

Heart failure-is the main focus of this project and is when the pumping action of the heart cannot supply enough blood to the rest of the body as a result of damaged cardiac tissue in the heart specifically.

Heart failure is when the heart cannot keep up with the immense demands placed on it by the body, and it starts to compensate causing remodeling of the cardiac cells due to stronger cardiac contractions. The heart chambers expand so they can fill with more blood to pump to the rest of the body, and the heart rate will increase to meet these demands (American Heart Association, 2015). Heart failure is the inability of the heart to fill and pump effectively enough to meet the metabolic demands of the body resulting in pulmonary and venous congestion (Lam et al., 2007). Over time the body can no longer compensate, and the person becomes symptomatic and progresses into worsening heart failure. The pulmonary and venous congestion or “fluid overload” will manifest itself in the form of lower extremity edema, shortness of breath, fatigue and even chest pain, which interferes with quality of life (Colucci, 2015).

Heart disease is a chronic, progressive medical condition that affects cardiovascular, respiratory, and nervous systems. The heart is not able to pump adequate amount of blood to fuel the body properly. The heart is not able to keep up with its workload. There are several different kinds of heart failure. Among them, one is left-sided heart failure, in which the left side of the heart works harder to pump blood. The pumping action moves oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the left atrium, left ventricle, and eventually to the other parts of the body. The left ventricle supplies as the source of pumping power, so it is larger and essential for normal function to be maintained. Two types of left-sided heart failure are systolic failure and

Is the condition where the heart is not pumping the right amount of blood to the rest of the body as it should be

Heart failure is a condition in which the heart muscle is unable to pump enough blood through the heart to meet the body’s need for blood and oxygen. Coronary artery disease is a form of heart disease that effects the chambers of the heart. There are four chambers in the heart. The upper chambers consist of a right and a left atrium and the lower chamber consists of the right and left ventricles. The flow of oxygen rich blood travels from the lungs to the left atrium and into the left ventricle where it is pumped into the rest of the body. When the heart functions properly, all four chambers beat and pump blood effectively in an organized way. The Virtual Medical Centre (Centre, 2008) newsletter states that "Management,

The human body requires a supply and demand process within itself to enable nutrients and oxygen to provide homeostasis and metabolic demands throughout each organ system. The most prominent organ effecting this process is the heart, which by using the cardiovascular system supplies every other system throughout the body with the oxygen and nutrients by pumping them throughout the blood. When the demand is not met or the supply is too great it can be considered heart failure.

Clinical coordinators would oversee the process to monitor for safety, quality, recruitment, and retention of patients in the program. The patients would receive detailed instructions and protocols on how to make calls daily, report vital signs, weight, and answer questions about their health and symptoms of heart failure. (Chaudrey et al., 2010). Results would then be transferred via a secure network connection. The providers could then evaluate the data to identify and manage early signs of decompensation, and to make recommendations on patient care. Providers could also provide patient education to help patients understand their discharge instructions and medications. (Inglis et al., 2011).