Patho
The amount of blood the ventricles eject each minute
What is cardiac output?
#1 risk factor
What is hypertension/CAD?
Increase rate and work of breathing, rale/crackles heard in the lungs, dyspnea on exertion, and orthopnea.
What is left- sided heart failure?
Often called water pills,make you urinate more frequently and keep fluid from collecting in your body. such as furosemide (Lasix), also decrease fluid in your lungs so you can breathe more easily.
What is a diuretic?
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?
An enlarged heart
What is Cardiomegaly?
They relax the smooth muscle in blood vessels which cause the vessels to dilate
What is vasodilators?
This nursing diagnosis applies to a patient who has an unsteady gait and needs assistance ambulating
What is r/f falls and/or activity intolerance?
Elevated pressure in the capillaries of the lungs causes fluid to be pushed into this space
What is interstitial space?
The passing of traits from parents to offspring.
What is family history?
It is often caused by issues within the pulmonary circulation such as pulmonary hypertension or pulmonary stenosis and backward failure of the right ventricle leading to congestion of systemic capillaries.
What is right- sided heart failure?
This class of drugs not only slows your heart rate and reduces blood pressure but also limits or reverses some of the damage to your heart if you have systolic heart failure. Examples include carvedilol (Coreg), metoprolol (Lopressor) and bisoprolol (Zebeta).
What are Beta-Blockers?
Patient is admitted to the hospital with an exacerbation of CHF with this nursing diagnosis; patient stated "it feels like an elephant is sitting on my chest"
What is acute/chronic pain r/t angina?
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?
Narrowed arteries may limit your heart's supply of oxygen-rich blood, resulting in weakened heart muscle.
What is coronary artery disease?
Often the earliest sign of heart failure?
Dyspnea on exertion
A vasodilator used to treat the chest pain associated with angina and to ease the symptoms of congestive heart failure (CHF)
What is a nitrate?
A patient has excess fluid volume and was taught be 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?
The inability to breathe properly while you sleep at night results in low blood oxygen levels and increased risk of abnormal heart rhythms.
What is sleep apnea?
The ventricle is unable to properly fill with blood because it is too stiff. Therefore, blood backs up into the lungs causing the patient to experience shortness of breath.
What is Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction?
Medications that may decrease the heart's pumping strength and relax blood vessels. Decrease blood pressure, cardiac workload, and myocardial oxygen consumption.
What are calcium channel blockers?
Related to changes in the alveolar capillary membrane.
characterized by; dyspnea, orthopnea.
What is impaired gas exchange?