Chapter 20- ❤️ Failure & Circulatory Shock Flashcards
Functions of the heart
The heart moves __________________ blood from the venous system through the __________ ___________ into the ______________ circulation.
- deoxygenated
- right heart
- pulmonary
The heart moves ______________ blood from the pulmonary circulation through the ________ heart into the _______ system.
- oxygenated
- left heart
- arterial
Preload?
Amount of blood coming back to the heart
Afterload?
Amount of blood going out of each ventricle
Acute heart failure develops __________?
Rapidly
*immediately life threatening
Chronic Heart Failure is a condition associated with what?
The heart undergoing adaptive responses
- adaptive responses can make heart failure worse*
- most common today
Patients with cardiomyopathy ultimately need what?
A ❤️ transplant
Frank - Starling mechanism serves to do what?
To match the output of both ventricles
Frank - Sterling mechanism operates through what?
Increase preload
Frank-Starling mechanism can lead to what?
Ventricular wall tension
- results in
- increase in myocardial oxygen requirements leading to ischemia of the heart and further damage
Sympathetic reflexes are “_____ or _____”
Fight or flight
Sympathetic reflexes do what?
- increase HR
- increase BP
What side of the ❤️ is the aortic valve on?
Left side
What side of the ❤️ is the mitral valve on?
Left side
Causes of left sided heart failure?
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Cardiomyopathy
- Mitral valve regurgitation
- Aortic valve stenosis and regurgitation
ALL LEFT SIDED
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Signs and symptoms of left sided heart failure?
- SOB
- Dyspnea (due to fluid in the lungs)
- Cyanosis
- Paroxysmal nocturnal Dyspnea
- Cheyne-stokes
Left sided heart failure affects the _________?
Lungs
Left- Lungs
Symptoms of left sided heart failure?
- cough
- crackles
- wheezes
- blood tinged sputum
- Tachypnea
- restlessness
- confusion
- orthopnea
- tachycardia
- exertional Dyspnea
- fatigue
- cyanosis
Why does left sided heart failure affect the lungs?
Backing up into VENTRICLES
(Ventricles can’t contain)
Flows into ATRIA
(Atria can’t contain)
Backflows into the lungs
What sound does fluid in the lungs produce?
Crackles
In patients with CHF
- sleeping flat= \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ - sleeping with multiple pillows/ in recliner = \_\_\_\_\_\_
Sleeping flat = Good
Sleeping w/multiple pillows/recliner = Bad