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Question 1

The heart

Answer 1

The heart pumps blood around the body or throughout the body.

Question 2

What is another name for congestive heart failure?

Answer 2

heart failure

Question 3

What are the parts of the blood?

Answer 3

Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, plasma.

Question 4

What is plasma?

Answer 4

plasma is the liquid part of the blood. It is the largest part of the blood. When separated, it has a light yellow color or a light amber color.

Question 5

What is heart failure?

Answer 5

Heart failure is the inability of the heart to pump sufficient blood to meet the body’s metabolic needs.

Question 6

What is ejection fraction measured by? What diagnostic test?

Answer 6

ejection fraction is the percentage of blood the left ventricle ejects when it contracts . Ejection fraction is measured using echocardiogram

Question 7

What is congestive heart failure?

Answer 7

Congestive heart failure describes the accumulation of blood and fluid in organs and tissues from impaired circulation.

Question 8

The heart is made up of how many Chambers?

Answer 8

Four Chambers.

Question 9

Name the chambers of the heart.

Answer 9

Two atrias and two ventricles.

Question 10

What is the purpose of the atrias ? What is the purpose of the ventricles?

Answer 10

The ventricles pump blood to your body’s organs and tissues and the Atria receive blood from your body as it circulates back from the rest of your body.

Question 11

Deteriorate means to

Answer 11

Fail

Question 12

What is hypervolemia

What is another name for it

Answer 12

Also called fluid overload , a condition of having too much water in your body.

Question 13

How do we classify heart failure and what are the two ways?

Answer 13

When made to classify hard fear that is how it develops acute or chronic period another way to classify It Is by location right-sided or left-sided.

Question 14

What does gradually mean?

Answer 14

Slowly

Question 15

Left ventricle ejects blood in the

Right ventricle ejects blood in the

Answer 15

Aorta

Pulmonary artery

Question 16

Primary reason for chf and definition

Second reason for chf

Answer 16

First reason myocardial infarction- insufficient blood flow to the heart or a part of the heart and causes Damage to cardiac muscles

Second reason, pumping chambers enlarged and weaken , such as in cardiomyopathy and hypertension where ventricles cannot eject all the blood they receive

Question 17

Describe the locations of heart failure.

Answer 17

Left-sided heart failure, blood congested in the left ventricle and left atrium, high flow causes fluid to get into the alveoli, gas exchange becomes impaired, cells become hypoxic and carbon dioxide accumulates in the blood. right sided heart failure, right ventricle cannot forcefully contract to push blood into pulmonary artery. Congestion of blood and backflow accumulate in right ventricle, right atrium

Question 18

What is ascites

Answer 18

Build-up of fluid inside the body. Makes abdomen swell

Question 19

What vitals should be closely monitored?

Answer 19

Bp

Pulse

Question 20

Palatable

Answer 20

Tasty

Question 21

Lethargy

Answer 21

Feeling of fatigue , tiredness and exhaustion both physically and mentally

Question 22

Erratic

Answer 22

erratic

/ɪˈratɪk/

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adjective

not even or regular in pattern or movement; unpredictable.

“her breathing was erratic”

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unpredictable

inconsistent

changeable