The heart is a hollow muscle that is centered in the cardiovascular system and pumps the blood throughout the body. It is characteristic is the cardiac muscle with a small size and many mitochondria. They contain very rare of cell nuclei and intercalated discs that specialized connections of intercellular. This organ is made up of four chambers: right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle. The atriums collect the blood from the pulmonary circulation while the ventricles pump the into the systemic circulation. In the heart there are three types of blood vessels such as arteries, vein, and capillaries. Arteries can carry the blood away from the heart which is being oxygenated to all parts of the body. Veins can carry blood …show more content…
The causes of a congestive heart failure can be from damage heart muscles and decrease of blood flow going into the heart. To be diagnosis with this a doctor will check risk factors like high blood pressure, diabetes and coronary artery disease. The congestive heart failure has symptoms like shortness of breath, swollen legs, and rapid heartbeat. Some people may experience other symptoms such as pain in the chest, dry cough, dizziness, and excess urination at night. The types of heart failures can happen on the left, and right sides. The left side will back up the fluid in the lungs to cause shortness of breath and the right side will back up the fluid in the abdomen, leg and feet that cause it to swell. These conditions can weaken the heart to cause heart failure. There many lifestyles to prevent the risk factors or even control congestive heart failure which include no smoking, staying physically active, maintaining a healthy weight, and reducing stress. The statistics show that over five million Americans are living with congestive heart failure each year. It can affect all ages from children to elderly, but most people with congestive heart failure are under the age of sixty years
The Pintails heart is like a mammals consisting of four chambers, two ventricles and two atria. The left ventricle pumps blood to all major organs in the body and throughout the rest, only excluding the lungs. This causes the left ventricle to be larger and more muscular. The lungs are fed blood from the right ventricle, which is the only the only function of that ventricle. The oxygenated blood coming from the lungs is fully separated from the oxygenated blood coming from other parts of the body.
Cardiomyopathy can occur from the lack of dystrophin on the heart muscles. Cardiomyopathy makes it difficult for the patient to breathe. The heart becomes weak and swollen. It is not able to pump enough blood throughout the body, which will cause life-threatening results.
1.Congestive Heart Failure also known as (heart failure) is a life threatening condition. Heart Failure is caused when someone has a weak heart. It usually happens when the bodies blood pump to the heart is not pumping blood to the heart correctly.
Normally blood entering the right side of the heart stays on the right side (this is low-oxygen blood), and blood on the left side of the heart stays on the left side (this is oxygen-rich blood) which is then pumped to the rest of the body. But in this particular condition when a defect or "hole" is present between the ventricles (or lower chambers), blood from the left side of the heart is forced through the defect to the right side every time the heart beats. It then goes back to the lungs even though it is already rich in oxygen. Because of this, blood that is not yet oxygen-rich can 't get to the lungs. The most common signs and symptoms are trouble eating and gaining weight, breathlessness and easy fatigability in
Some signs that a patient may have right sided heart failure are: shortness of breath, swelling of feet and ankles, JVD. This is often diagnosed by a EKG, or a chest xray. There are a few ways to determine if a patient has carpal tunnel. The Phalen 's sign is a common test used to do this the provider will have the patient hold your elbows at shoulder level and place the backs of your hands together with your wrists bent at 90 degrees. Hold this position for 60 seconds.
Heart, lungs and the Rest of You By: Olivia Abel 1.Explain how the blood flows throughout your lungs, heart and the rest of your body. Heart: Your left and right side of your heart work together to pump blood to and throughout your body which is separated by muscular tissue called the septum. In the right side blood enters through two large vein which are the inferior and superior vena cava, emptying poor oxygen blood from the body to the right reticulum. When the left side enters from the pulmonary veins and empties oxygen rich blood from the lungs into the aorta going throughout the body.
Christina Markevich 10/29/2015 Congestive Heart Failure What is Congestive Heart Failure? Congestive Heart Failure is something that occurs when the heart is no longer able to pump enough blood to the rest of the body, or when is just is not able to pump blood as well as it should. Some people happen to have either of these problems, some people have both.
Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood for the body due to a weakened or damaged heart. The heart 's pumping action moves oxygen-rich blood as it travels from the lungs to the left atrium, then on to the left ventricle, which pumps it to the rest of the body. The left ventricle supplies most of the heart 's pumping power, so it 's larger than the other chambers and essential for normal function. (American Heart Association). In left-sided or left ventricular heart failure, the left side of the heart must work harder to pump the same amount of blood.
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome has many factors, stages and severities of the disease which could predict an outcome differently for each individual case. However if left untreated HLHS can be fatal. The left side of the heart is unable to supply blood to the rest of the body therefore the right side of the heart has to work harder to compensate for it. The right ventricle can support this circulation but will eventually cause right sided heart failure. Babies have two routes that can help support and carry blood between the left and right ventricles.
Summary of Article 1 Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is the inability of the heart to pump blood effectively throughout the body due to weakened heart muscles. Most of the aging population, regardless of the gender, often have this problem due compromised cardiopulmonary system. People who suffers from heart failure experience fatigue, weakness, shortness of breath, and general debility. This affects how an individual performs his or her daily chores.
Because of this inability to contract effectively, the rest of the vital organs receive inadequate amount of blood resulting to inadequate tissue perfusion. There are two types of left-sided HF; systolic and diastolic failure. Systolic failure happens when the left ventricle doesn’t have the enough energy to pump normally the blood to the general circulation. As for diastolic failure, the left ventricle loses the ability to fill itself with blood during resting period resulting to inadequate amount of blood to be pumped out to the circulation (Weinrauch, 2008). The diastolic dysfunction will eventually lead to right-sided heart failure.
Some causes of this disease according to Gerard Burrow, are “Diseased heart muscle, chronic high blood pressure, a heart attack, and major cardiac arrhythmia”. The causes that are listed above actually cause congestive heart failure. With having congestive heart failure, patients are examined every six months or so depending on the severity of the disease. During that examination, there may be signs of the disease, according to Gerard Burrow: “In the Heart: 1) heart enlargement, 2) Increased heart rate, in the Lungs: Crackling noises (rales), leakage of fluid from the lungs, [and] in other areas: Swelling of the skin, edema of the lower back, buildup of fluid of the abdominal cavity, increased size of liver, ascites” (181) .
Heart Failure Course Components Megan Kinlaw American Public University Community Health in Nursing II I chose to give a presentation on heart failure for my teaching project, how it’s managed, and what to teach the patient in order to stay out of the hospital. Heart failure is one of the most diagnosed illnesses in the world and will often be seen throughout most nursing careers. I selected new graduate registered nurses as my target audience to improve their understanding of heart failure prior to entering the health care field. The objectives that I set for the project were for the audience to know why it is so important to understand CHF, to provide a thorough description of the illness along with each type of heart
Congestive Heart Failure Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) is a clinical syndrome of worsening signs or symptoms of heart failure requiring hospitalization or other unscheduled medical care (Felker 2014). ADHF formerly known as congestive heart failure is one of the leading cause for hospitalizations in the United States. ADHF accounts for approximately 1 million hospitalizations per year in the United States (Arnold & Porepa 2012). According to the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry, patients hospitalized with ADHF have a substantial risk of in-hospital mortality and rehospitalization. Pathophysiology
Essentials for Heart Health Dr. Halit Yerebakan As a cardiac surgeon I touch to about 100 persons life (hearts) by my hands annually, but in fact I always write on this column so that I touch to thousands of lives with my words so that they don’t end up on my operating table. Its maybe a personal duty for myself that I personally assigned, but teaching about health basics have shown to improve health. Today lets go on with my specialty, heart disease. Your power source, your heart, the organ that sits right in the middle of your chest cavity, the thing that beats, and every beat counts for your life.