Congestive Heart Failure Congestive heart failure, or CHF, is a condition that afflicts millions of Americans. Over five hundred thousand new diagnoses are made every year. CHF is a condition that is entirely caused by the body’s homeostatic compensatory mechanisms. CHF arises from the condition simply termed, heart failure. Heart failure is manifested by the heart’s inability to provide adequate perfusion to the body. This occurs due to other conditions or diseases such as chronic hypertension
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they are transmitted. This helps us to better treat the disease. The process of epidemiology is lengthy but must be followed accurately to ensure correct diagnosis and treatment. Epidemiology is used when a new disease is found and when a disease reappears in high numbers. A common disease in the elderly is congestive heart failure (CHF). The epidemiology process can be used to better understand the disease, what causes it and how to treat it. According to the World Health Organization
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kindey dMs. Jones, a 68-year-old female, underwent open heart surgery to replace several blocked vessels in her heart. On her first day postoperatively, it was noted that she had very little urine output. Answer questions 1-8 below. In each scenario, the patient is experiencing renal failure. 1. What is happening to Ms. Jones’s kidneys, and why is it causing the observed symptom? when a person produces less than 500 milliliters of urine in 24 hours, this defines decreased urine output
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Heart Failure and Alcohol Heart failure, also called congestive heart failure, a term that refers only to HF cases with volume Overload. Heart failure is a progressive disease in which the heart fails to pump a sufficient amount of Blood to the body due to structural heart damage. Heart failure is the endpoint of a cardiovascular Disease, including hypertension. Heart failure can be classified as being either left sided or right sided Right sided acute or chronic, or systolic or
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system. Our heart is a strong muscle that beats about 100,000 times a day. With each beat of the heart, blood is pumped to the lungs via pulmonary circulation and to the rest of the body via systemic circulation. The pumping of the heart enables the body to receive oxygen and rid the body of carbon dioxide. Your heart pumps 30 times its own weight each minute. This amounts to about 5 liters of blood pumped to the lungs and to the rest of your body. It is, therefore understandable why the heart changes
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year the growth remains in a basal rosette of leaves. The second year the flowering stems are produced (Munro). Foxglove digitalis is native to Europe and the Pacific Northwest United States but today it is grown commercially and used to produce the heart drugs Digoxin and Digitoxin (Munro). The name Foxglove digitalis has its roots in Latin where the word digitalis means finger. This was used to describe the blossoms of the plant that fit the human finger perfectly. Foxglove digitalis has several
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James Black, an accomplishment for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 (Stapleton, 1997). Sir Black took a different approach to the treatment of angina pectoris—instead of using drugs to increase the amount of oxygen delivered to the heart, Black sought to find a drug that could reduce the amount of oxygen required by the heart. The drugs in this classification are subdivided into two categories: non-selective and selective (cardioselective). Major drugs in the non-selective beta-blocker
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Hypertension and the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, otherwise known as RAAS is a complex hormone system that regulates blood pressure and fluid balance in the human body. When blood volume is low, juxtaglomerular cells in the kidneys activate prorenin, which secretes renin directly into the blood stream circulation. Subsequently, a drop in blood volume additionally releases angiotensinogen from liver, in which
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Prevention of Hospital Readmissions Related to Symptoms of Congestive Heart Failure NRS 441V Professional Capstone March 1, 2014 Abstract Providing patients diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure effective teaching can eliminate reoccurring hospitalizations. Patients are discharged with CHF and readmitted within 30 days. The information provided will examine the process of enhancing patient knowledge and provide additional resources essential for effective health care management. Research
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Definition Heart failure occurs when abnormal cardiac function causes failure of the heart to pump blood at a rate sufficient for metabolic requirements under normal filling pressure. It is characterised clinically by breathlessness, effort intolerance, fluid retention, and poor survival. Fluid retention and the congestion related to this can often be relieved with diuretic therapy. However, diuretic therapy should generally not be used alone and, if required, should be combined with the pharmacological
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