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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Renal Failure Kidneys are unable to remove accumulated metabolites from the blood which leads to altered fluid‚ electrolyte‚ and acid-base balance The cause may be a primary kidney disorder or secondary to a systemic disease May be acute or chronic Acute Abrupt onset and with prompt intervention is often reversible Chronic Develops slowly‚ is the end stage‚ and is not reversible Azotemia Nitrogen (protein) waste in the blood Acute Renal Failure A rapid decline in renal function with
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Information Failure Information Failure is a lack of information resulting in consumers and producers making decisions that do not maximise welfare. When there is information failure‚ there will be an insufficient allocation of resources and hence market failure. Imperfect information or information failure means that merit goods are under-produced while demerit goods are over-produced or over-consumed. Information failure is caused by: * Misunderstanding the true costs or benefits of a product
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Goods and Market Failure Public goods are goods that would not be provided at all in a free market. Since they are goods that are of benefit to society‚ the lack of public goods in a free market is considered to be a market failure. Examples of public goods would be national defense and flood barriers. There is much debate over what actually a public good is and what is not. Beside that the inability of the market to provide public goods is a failure because nobody
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Types of market failure Monopoly power Markets may fail to control the abuses of monopoly power. Missing markets Markets may fail to form‚ resulting in a failure to meet a need or want‚ such as the need for public goods‚ such as defense‚ street lighting‚ and highways. Incomplete markets Markets may fail to produce enough merit goods‚ such as education and healthcare. De-merit goods Markets may also fail to control the manufacture and sale of goods like cigarettes and alcohol‚ which have less
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[Type the company name] Market failure and Government intervention Answers Rifdhi Azad – SQA 03 QUESTIONS 1. Explain what is meant by the term ”market failure”. In your answer you must refer to the role of government in relation to each of the following a. Public Goods b. Merit Goods c. Externalities d. Imperfect competition 2. Select one current government policy on completion and a. Explain the policy selected b. Identify and describe the instruments used to achieve your chosen policy c. Evaluate
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Congestive heart failure‚ also known as CHF or heart failure transpires when your heart muscle doesn’t pump blood as well as it should‚ various conditions like high blood pressure‚ escape your heart to weak or stiff to fill and pump correctly. Heart failure is caused by many ways one of which includes‚ coronary artery disease‚ a disease of the arteries to supply blood and oxygen to the heart‚ causes decreased blood flow to the heart muscle. CHF is also caused by a heart attack which‚ happens when
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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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Heart failure (HF) is a progressive disease which affects more than five million Americans (Yancy et al.‚ 2013). HF negatively impacts quality of life and it is associated with frequent hospitalizations and high mortality. Evidence-based practice guidelines aid health care professionals with treatment management and provide pathways to optimize individual patient care. The main goal of treatment is to slow the progression of the disease and control its symptoms. These pathways address all stages
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Research Analysis #1 Significance & 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
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