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Acute Exacerbation of Heart Failure
Aetiology
It is a most common cause of
heart failure. It is caused because
of taking more tension.
hypertension Irregular
pulse
It means that the
pulse rate of a
person are very
irregular that is
sometimes it is high
sometimes oit is
low.
Pathogenesis
Decreased cardiac output- it is
evidenced with decrease n room
air breathing.
Systolic heart failure
Activation- vasopression
Bilateral basal crackles in lungs
Left ventricular function
Atrial fibrillation- is a common chronic
cardiac arrhythmia which affects the
person in form of heart failure or stroke
Treatment
There are many
pharmacological
therapies like furosemide
and glyceryl trinitrate.
Pharmacotherapy Nursing & non-
pharmacotherapy
Also there are different
types of non
pharmacological
interventions which can be
used by nurses like
administering the heart
rhythm and monitoring the
oxygen saturation.
Diagnosis
Acute exacerbation of
chronic systolic heart
failure
Severe dysnoea Bilateral basal crackles
in lungs
Respiratory rate of 24
breathe per minute
BP at 170/ 95 mmHg
Pulse rate of
120 beats per minute
Severe
breathles
sness
Vital
symptoms
Course of the Disease Prevention
She was having medical history of
suffering from heart failure which was
diagnosed two years ago.
It can be prevented by
keeping a check on the
liquid intake of the patient
Another thing which can
be done for preventing
this is to check the pulse
rate from time- to- time
Another thing can be to
inspect the colour of the
skin from time- to- time.
It is a diseases which occurs when the heart
muscle do not pump the blood and the arteries
of the heart are narrowed down.