Aging and Congestive Heart Failure Rebecca E. Welch What Is Congestive Heart Failure? Congestive Heart Failure‚ also known as CHF‚ is a chronic condition that affects the chambers of your heart. You have four chambers: two atria in the upper half of the heart and two ventricles in the lower half. The ventricles send blood to your organs and tissue and the atria receives the blood as it circulates back from the rest of the body. CHF develops when your ventricles cannot pump in sufficient volume
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Congestive heart failure is the process in which the heart becomes in-able to maintain circulation for the requirements of the body at an effective rate‚ As the heart is one of the body’s vital organs‚ it plays an important role and has some degree of compensating mechanisms to balance the body’s needs with existing disease of the heart. Eventually when the heart is no longer able to compensate heart failure occurs; congestion will then follow‚ resulting in insufficient supply of blood to the body
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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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OF THE HEART Anatomy: The heart and heart wall layers: The heart is located in the left side of the mediastinum; it consists of three muscle layers the Endocardium‚ myocardium‚ and epicardium. The epicardium is the outermost layer of the heart. The myocardium is the idle layer of and actual contracting muscle of the heart. The endocardium is the innermost layer and lines the inner chambers and heart valves. Pericardial sac: The pericardial sac encases and protects the heart from trauma
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Who Gets The Heart? Who deserves the gift of life? These are five patients who are worthy of having this heart transplant. This has been one of the toughest decisions in my career as a doctor‚ but I have made a choice. I’ve decided that Helen is the best candidate for this surgery. I feel this way partly because‚ her kids are at a stage in their life where they need their mothers care and the others aren’t good choices for a few reasons. But this is not the main reason for my choice. Above all
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Risk Factors Congestive Heart Failure can be brought on by many conditions. These conditions include Coronary Artery Disease‚ Heart Attack‚ and lastly Cardiomyopathy. Coronary artery disease can develop in humans after years over time after years of fatty deposits in the vascular system (Arteriosclerosis). After a heart attack the heart muscles are weakened and cannot perform the way they could prior to the attack. Therefore‚ as the muscles lose their pumping ability the heart cannot work to its full
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dark in here with very little space. I have been shuffling these red and black thoughts around like a Rubik’s Cube of blood and darkness. There is only one white piece that seems to create some space. When I try occupying it‚ black and red forms ooze in filling it‚ forming a purple sludge that eventually separates back into red‚ and black. I am so tired and the darkness suppresses me. There must be more white pieces here‚ if only I could find them. “So Justin‚ what brings you here?” I am sitting
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Teamwork: The Heart of Healthcare The purpose of this paper is to discuss the importance of teamwork in healthcare. Due to the complexity and specification of healthcare‚ the collaboration of teamwork allows healthcare workers the capability to collaborate efforts in order to identify‚ evaluate‚ and solve problems. Teamwork enhances the entire patience care experience for all parties involved. The article “Teamwork: The Heart of Healthcare”‚ found in AAMC News (2016)‚ discusses how teamwork
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A Change of Heart Warring nations scar even the very fabric of humanity but the scars that nature leaves in the surface of the earth are immense and unwrithingly painful. Even time can not heal the devastation that a civilization would undergo when nature decides the course that it should take. Billions of years ago‚ time when even man has not touched the abundance of the earth‚ massive extinctions have already caused much change. Time when the glorious age of the mighty dinosaurs were first recorded
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Dark Perception There are many connotations leading to the words light and darkness‚ but generally‚ most people relate the word light with positive meanings‚ and they associate the word darkness with negative meanings. However‚ in the play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams uses the theme of light and darkness in very interesting ways to further highlight key points and characters. He uses light and darkness in both physical‚ as in being actually present in the play setting‚ and literal
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