Heart failure is a very common disease; whereby around 670‚000 people are diagnosed with the disease every year (Lien‚ & Alexis‚ 2012). There is increased hospitalization of people aged above 65 years because of congestive heart failure. It is characterized with the slow movement of the blood through the heart and an increased pressure in the heart. The heart fails to pump adequate oxygen and nutrients in the body satisfaction. Because of retention of salt and fluid‚ one might have kidney problems
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Student name Instructor Course Date Congestive Heart Failure Q: The credibility and reliability of peer reviewed research communications are seen as the “gold standard” within the basic and applied sciences. Why do you think the role of the editor/reviewer is so critical in ensuring such quality? A: It is supposed that peer reviewing guarantees the quality of the paper. Although the process of peer reviewing takes a lot of time‚ it provides opportunities for careful revision of the original
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Congestive heart failure is the process in which the heart becomes in-able to maintain circulation for the requirements of the body at an effective rate‚ As the heart is one of the body’s vital organs‚ it plays an important role and has some degree of compensating mechanisms to balance the body’s needs with existing disease of the heart. Eventually when the heart is no longer able to compensate heart failure occurs; congestion will then follow‚ resulting in insufficient supply of blood to the body
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JAN ORIGINAL RESEARCH JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING A randomized controlled trial of self-management programme improves health-related outcomes of older people with heart failure Jung-Hua Shao‚ Anne M. Chang‚ Helen Edwards‚ Yea-Ing Lotus Shyu & Su-Hui Chen Accepted for publication 2 February 2013 Correspondence to Su-Hui Chen: e-mail: sophee@gw.cgust.edu.tw Jung-Hua Shao PhD RN Assistant Professor School of Nursing‚ College of Medicine‚ Chang Gung University‚ Taiwan Anne M. Chang PhD RN
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Heart Failure is a disease state caused by a dysfunction or structural deviation in the cardiac system that inhibits the heart’s ventricles from filling and ejecting blood in its fullest capacity. When the heart’s ability to effectively pump blood decreases it lacks the ability to meet the need for blood in all other areas of the body. 1-3 Heart failure is considered a progressive condition that originates from a cardiovascular event that damages the function of the heart to contract and relax.1
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Treating Heart Failure When a patient’s heart is no longer able to pump a sufficient amount of blood around the body‚ they are referred to as having heart failure. The heart muscle has been damaged or overworked and is therefore unable to pump as effectively as before. Coronary heart disease is the most common cause of heart failure‚ cardiomyopathy and hypertension are also implicated (Peterson et al‚ 2002). Heart failure can present acutely or chronically. Chronic heart failure tends to worsen
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DQ 3 Heart failure is a condition in which the heart does not pump enough blood to meet the needs of the body’s tissues. Heart failure that develops slowly over time is usually a result of other conditions. Conditions such as high blood pressure‚ coronary artery disease‚ serve lung disease‚ diabetes‚ obesity‚ thyroid disorders‚ life style reasons‚ gender and even ethnicity. These types of conditions tend weaken and damage the heart over time Heart Failure can also occur suddenly as the result of
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Contribution The article by Britz & Dunn (2010)‚ Self-care and quality of life among patients with Heart failure‚ has significant implications for practice. Britz & Dunn (2010) clearly express the ominous situation between self-care deficit among heart failure patients and decreased quality of life. They report that heart failure: can be extremely costly -with repeated hospitalizations‚ claims the lives of many and patients have very poor quality of life. The problem is big and only getting bigger with
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NURS 3530: Caring for Adult Clients I HEART FAILURE CASE STUDY Your client‚ Mr. Black‚ is a 72-year-old man who called his TeleNurse Line from home and‚ based on the symptoms he described‚ was advised to go directly to the Emergency Department at his local hospital. His admitting diagnosis is exacerbation of heart failure (HF). His Ht is: 5’9”‚ Wt. 235 lbs. He states that his usual weight is about 220. Upon admission‚ his symptoms are: extreme shortness of breath; unable to tolerate lying
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Heart Failure Heart failure is an ailment where the heart is not able to pump the required amount of blood to the body. Left-sided heart failure is described as when the heart cannot pump enough oxygenated blood to the body while Right-sided heart failure is when the heart cannot fill with the appropriate amount of blood.1 One or both of these may occur with heart failure. In the United States‚ 5.8 million people have heart failure and this number is continuing to grow.1 With the number of people
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