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Congestive Heart Failure Case Study

   

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1CASE STUDY 1Question 1:Congestive heart failure mainly refers to the situation when blood moves through theheart as well as the body in a much slower rate resulting in increase of pressure of the heart.Heart becomes unable to pump sufficient amount of oxygen as well as nutrients for meeting theneeds of the body. Although the chambers of the heart tries its best to respond to the situationsby stretching to hold more blood and pumping through the body or by becoming stiff, the heartmuscle walls eventually gets weak and therefore they cannot continue the pumping efficiently.Researchers state four different types of causes that may contribute to the disorders. The first onemay be coronary heart diseases where the arteries carry decreased amount of blood to the heartmuscles and therefore sufficient oxygen is not delivered (Mozaffarian et al., 2016). A heartattack may be yet another cause where the arteries are blocked suddenly that stops blood flow tothe heart and heart muscles get damaged. Cardiomyopathy may be yet another cause wheredamage of heart muscles takes place due to infections or alcohol use. Other causes that weakenthe heart are high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney disorders and others. However, the heartdisorder in the patient is mainly due to sinus bradycardia that had taken place due to inferior wallmyocardial infarction. She already had suffered from myocardial infarction in the past and herheart muscles were already damaged due to lack of oxygen supply (January et al., 2014). Herforgetting to take medications might have resulted in occurrence of the disorders. Therefore, therisk factors of these disorders are high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, heart attack,diabetes, and certain medications. Sleep apnea, congenital heart defects, viruses, alcohol andtobacco use and many others. However, no such information is present in case of the patients.Therefore, the risk factors for the patient may be her presence of high blood pressure as seen inthe case study as well as coronary disorders and sinus bradycardia. Patients who suffer from

2CASE STUDY 1congestive heart failure have to maintain a highly restricted and disciplined life that might affectthem mentally (Lictman et al., 2014) . They often are seen to be anxious about their healthcondition and gradually become depressed. They might not be able to conduct many activitiesthat they used to conduct earlier as the activities may put pressures on their heart. All suchobstruction in lives may make the patient feel sad and de-motivated. Caregivers and familymembers may also get emotionally affected to see their patients suffer and may remainconcerned, tensed and fearful of the situations aggravating in any cases (Ford et al., 2015). Theyalso may be physically tired of taking care of the patients and heavy financial flow ofmedications, healthcare costs and caregiver fees may may makes them tensed and depressed.Question 2:One of the most important symptoms of the disorder is congested lungs. Actually, fluidbackup in the lungs contribute to the occurrence of shortness of breath which results in difficultyin breathing. Lung congestion also leads to the occurrence of dry cough development or evenwheezing. Another symptom is fluid and water retention. Less amount of blood flows to thekidney that in turn results in swollen, ankles, legs as well as abdomen called the occurrence ofedema (Sin et al., 2015). The same phenomena results to the third symptom that increases theneed to urinate at night. The third symptom is loss of appetite and feeling of nausea by thepatient. This symptom mainly occurs due to the buildup of fluid around the liver and gut andthese interferes with digestion. As result of these, loss of appetite and nausea often accompaniessuch patients. The fourth symptom is the occurrence of dizziness, fatigue and weakness. Themain reason for the occurrence of the disorder is less flow of blood to the major organs as well asthe muscles. These make the patient feel tired and weak. Very little flow of the blood to the braincan result in occurrence of dizziness as well as confusion among the patients. The fifth symptom

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