Heart Failure Heart failure (HF)‚ often called congestive heart failure (CHF) or congestive cardiac failure (CCF)‚ occurs when the heart is unable to provide sufficient pump action to distribute blood flow to meet the needs of the body. Heart failure can cause a number of symptoms including shortness of breath‚ leg swelling‚ and exercise intolerance. The condition is diagnosed with echocardiography and blood tests. Treatment commonly consists of: lifestyle measures such as smoking cessation
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Complexity of the heart Sumintera Rodriguez September 19‚ 2015 Kaplan University Complexity of the heart From a young age we are taught what the heart is from pictures‚ books and even signs that the heart is the color red‚ shaped with two humps at top and comes to a point on the end. On the daily we see commercials like cheerios explain to us how important it is to take care of our heart. Yet in all actuality the heart is a complex organ that not all are fully aware of and if were to actually
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Totally Artificial Heart (TAH) The US government funded a project to create a totally artificial heart in 1964. Bioengineers thought that a fully functional totally artificial heart would have been created within the next 10 years. In 1964 the Liotta TAH was used to bridge the period between the need for a transplant and the provision of a heart from a donor. The totally artificial heart kept the patient alive for 64 hours‚ at which point the patient received a transplant and died 32 hours later
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Congestive Heart Failure Congestive Heart Failure‚ also known as "cardiac decompensation‚ cardiac insufficiency‚ and cardiac incompetence‚" (Basic Nursing 1111) is an imbalance in pump function in which the heart is failing and unable to do its work pumping enough blood to meet the needs of the body’s other organs. To some people‚ heart failure is defined as a sudden and complete stoppage of heart activityi.e. that the heart just stops beating. This is an inaccuracy. Heart failure usually
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coronary heart disease. Heart desease is a condition that affect the structure and functions of the heart and has many root causes. There are many types of heart diseases. Including: 1. Heart Failure Heart failure is a condition where the heart can not supply the bloodstream to fulfill the needs of the body and potentially deadly. This type of heart disease have some symptoms including: swelling in the feet and hands‚ the addition or subtraction of weight before swelling due to fluid excessive‚ short
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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) By: Deborah Dominie Composition 2 ENC-1102 Instructor: Lindsay Ludvigsen Everest University May 10‚ 2013 My essay is directed to all the people out there that have wanted to know about congestive heart failure or is living with and taking care of a loved one with this disease. I myself have lost loved ones to this disease and now my mother suffers with it. So‚ I believe this essay has helped me and I truly hope it will help you as well. In this essay I will
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In the United State there are a huge population of people who suffers through heart failure‚ and minimal donations for heart transplant. Due to this particular problem doctors found a small solution and created a device called LVAD [Left Ventricular Assistant Device]. LVAD benefits the heart’s function and is considered the bridge step before getting a heart transplant. It helps an individual get back to their everyday activities and extends their expectancy lifespan. Stated by the statistic of
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is among the top preventable risk factors of heart disease amongst many other health problems. Coronary heart disease and strokes are the primary types of cardiovascular disease caused by smoking. They rank as the first and third leading causes of death in the United States. More than 61 million Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease. Smoking increases your risk for high blood pressure‚ coronary heart disease‚ stroke‚ congestive heart failure‚ and aneurysms to name a few. More
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_____Total _____ divide by 3 = _____ This is your Resting Heart RateObtain your Maximum Heart Rate (MHR) by subtracting your age from 220. Example 220 – 21 = 199 1. Subtract your resting heart rate (RHR) that you calculated in Part II above from the maximum heart rate (MHR) that you just determined in Step 1. Example 3. 199 - 70 (RHR) = 129 Determine the percent of heart rate reserve at which you choose to train. The lower limit of heart rate reserve for training purposes is 50% of your answer
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Discussion Heart Rate Our hypothesis stated 1.) The heart rate increases substantially when a person performs a physical activity and 2.) Females have heart rates greater than males’. In this experiment we measured the resting heart rates and exercise heart rates of both the male and females that are in the class. We calculated the results that were taken by each member of each group in the class (6 males and 16 females total). The average resting heart rate for women was 71.8 beats per minute
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