CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE

Congestive Heart Failure and Importance of Patient Understanding

Congestive Heart Failure and Importance of Patient understanding

Clinical Problem

The clinical problem that has been identified is congestive heart failure, which refers to the situation when heart is unable to supply sufficient blood flow and does not fulfill the needs of the body. Failure of heart can cause numerous symptoms and diagnoses of the condition can be done through blood tests and echocardiography. In the countries that are developed, approximately 2% of the adults suffer because of failure of heart, however when they are normally 65 year old, the chances of heart failure increase to 6 to 10%.

Contrary to popular belief, heart failure is not a disease. Heart failure is called arises due to various reasons state in which the attenuated contractility of the heart muscle (myocardium) and the heart loses the ability to provide the body with the necessary amount of blood . The syndrome of heart failure complicated by a number of diseases of the cardiovascular system, particularly as often the disease occurs in people suffering from coronary heart disease and hypertension. Heart failure in many cases reduces the quality of life and can cause death.

Importance

For the heart to work effectively, it needs to pump in a controlled and regular rhythm, with coordination between the atria and ventricles. If these cease to work in unison, then the result in the worst case scenario may be death, depending on the type of arrhythmia. Congestive heart failure may be caused by any interference with the usual means regulating cardiac output. Cardiac yield depends on preload (amount of body-fluid in the ventricle at the end of diastole), after load (the force against which the left ventricle ejects), contractility of the sinew and heart rate. Any alteration in these factors can lead to declined ventricular function and subsequent congestive heart failure. The heart is the body's main circulatory system. It is a muscular organ located in the conical chest cavity. It works like a pump, pushing blood through the body. Its size is slightly larger than the fist of the wearer. The heart is divided into four chambers: two upper-called right atrium (right atrium) and left atrium (left atrium) and two lower chambers, called the right ventricle and left ventricle. The heart is an organ muscular self-controlled, a pump applicant and stimulating, consisting of two parallel pumps that work in unison to propel blood to all organs of the body. The atria are chambers of receipt, which send blood to get into the ventricles, chambers that function as expulsion. The right heart receives poorly oxygenated blood from:

Literature Critique

Five studies that address the problem have been reviewed, and the details of the work have been mentioned below.

Summarize the problem

There has been a high rate of prevalence of probability for the people to become a victim of heart failure. This is because of numerous causes; however, since heart is the most primary organ in our bodies without which our bodies cannot function, it is important ...