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How many individuals does CHF affect each year?
What is 550,000?
What is MI, HTN, Diabetes, smokers, obesity.
What should the patient do if they notice pink frothy sputum?
Call 911 or go to the ER! Fluid volume overload!
A type of ACE inhibitor utilized in patients with CHF?
What is Lisinopril.
Main nursing diagnosis used with CHF patients
What is decreased cardiac output?
Two main types of heart failure
What is Left-sided and Right-sided?
Factor when a person reaches a certain time in their life when body systems begin to decrease
What is advancing age?
What lifestyle modifications assist in preventing heart failure exacerbation?
What is exercise, heart healthy diet, no smoking, medication compliance
A type of beta-blocker?
What is metoprolol.
What is "Betty, Lasix is a medication that will help rid your body of excess water"
What is echo, chest x-ray, labs (BNP, cardiac panel), history, assessment?
The nurse tried to tell patient Mr. Bob that he needed to stop THIS bad habit because this would increase the risk of CHF
What is cigarette smoking?
Fancy word for when a patient with CHF is short of breath
What is dyspnea?
An O2 sat of less than ____% is cause for concern
What is 90%
Larry is admitted to the hospital with bilateral leg edema and ascites. What type of heart failure may he be experiencing?
What is left-sided heart failure
In right-sided failure, the right ventricle doesn't pump normally resulting in decreased ventricular emptying that backs up into _____
What is the pulmonary arteries (lungs)?
Fred goes to McDonald's everyday for lunch and dinner and he wonders why he is in the hospital for CHF. What could the CNS do to in this situation?
What is provide dietary education to the patient?.
A patient who is short of breath, coughing, & fatigued may be experiencing what?
What is CHF signs and symptoms?
Joe was given this type of drug to help with the pink frothy sputum
What is a diuretic?
Ted has excess fluid volume and was taught by the nurse to do this everyday
What is a daily weight?
Syndrome in which the heart fails to pump adequate blood throughout the body resulting in congestion of pulmonary or systemic circulation
What is CHF?
What medications are used to treat heart failure?
What are ACE inhibitors, diuretics, vasodilators, beta-blockers, blood thinners, angiotensin II blockers, & Calcium channel blockers?
What medication assists in ridding the lungs of fluid?
What is Lasix or Bumex?
Beta Blocker Therapy & CHF (statement)
During the first year, it was estimated that beta blocker therapy saved 3.8 lives per 100 patients treated and was associated with four fewer hospitalizations per 100 patients treated
Your patient is having trouble breathing and is spitting up pink frothy sputum. Their SPO2 is reading 85%. What should you do?
Sit the patient up, administer oxygen, assess lung sounds, call provider- prepare for CPAP or intubation of condition worsens.