Chronic Heart Failure Flashcards
What is cardiac arrest?
Heart stops beating properly due to electrical disturbances
What is a heart attack?
Blockage in or circulation cut off to the coronary arteries
What is heart failure?
Heart fails as a pump and cannot meet the O2 demands of the body
In terms of heart failure what is the difference between Systolic and diastolic in terms of EF?
- Systolic: Reduced EF
- Diastolic: Preserved EF
What is the difference between Systolic and diastolic in terms of EF numerically?
- Systolic: <40%
- Diastolic: >55%
What is the difference between systolic and diastolic in terms of contraction and relaxation during failure?
- Systolic: impaired contraction
- Diastolic: Impaired relaxation
How does heart failure happen commonly?
Most commonly due to IHD/CAD
(Ischemic heart disease)
What signs send patients into diastolic failure happen commonly?
Due to HTN and LVH
In all cases of CHF how many are systolic?
60%
How many diastolic failure consist of all CHF?
40% with increasing prevalence
What are some things we see during diastolic heart failure? 2
- Normal EF
- Reduced LV compliance elevated filling pressures
What are some less common things seen with diastolic heart failure? 4
- Infiltrative myocardial disease
- LVH caused by aortic stenosis
- HTN
- Advanced age
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What causes elevation of Diastolic failure? 4
- Elevation of LVEDP
- Elevation of LA pressure
- Elevation of pulmonary pressures
- Elevation of RT heart failure
What is LT CHF due to? 3
- Myocardial disease
- LT heart valves
- CAD
What are RT sided CHF due to? 3
- LT heart failure
- RT heart valves
- Lung Disease
What are two major left heart failure causes? 2
- Decreased myocardial function
- Increased myocardial workload
What conditions causes decreased myocardial function of the left heart? 5
- Coronary artery disease (CAD)
- Myocarditis
- Cardiomyopathy
- Infiltrative diseases
- Radiation therapy
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What causes increased myocardial workload category of left heart failure? 4
- Hypertension
- Valvular diseases
- Severe regurgitation/ stenosis
- Increased preload/ after load
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What are some symptoms of left sided CHF? 3
- The pneas (dyspnea)
- Fatigue
- Palpitations
What type of fatigue will we see in left sided CHF?
Not enough cardiac output +/- poor O2 exchange in lung due to increased pressure
What is the palpitations symptoms in left sided heart failure caused by?
Usually due to tachycardia, which is a frequent compensatory mechanism in systolic failure due to increased blood volume
What are some left sided CHF signs? 5
- Cardiomegaly
- Pulmonary edema
- Heart/ lung sounds
- Cheyene- stocked respiration
- Arrhythmia
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What is the most common cause of right sided CHF?
Left side heart failure
What are right sided CHF causes? 2
- Left sided heart failure
- Primary lung Disease
What are some types of primary lung disease that affect right sided CHF? 3
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Emphysema
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What are some RV failure signs? 4
- Signs related to underlying disease
- Murmur
- Wheezing, SOB
- Systemic congestion signs
What are some systemic congestion signs in the right heart? 4
- Jugular venous pulse
- Pitting edema
- Ascites
- Cynaosis
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What are some RV failure symptoms? 4
- Fatigue
- Dependent edema
- RUQ/LUQ pain
- Anorexia or bloating
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What is RV fatigue?
When CO is reduced, or poor O2 exchange in the lung
Why is there RUQ/LUQ pain in RV failure?
Liver/ spleen engorgement
Why can we get RV failure from anorexia or bloating?
From hepatic or visceral engorgement
Cor pulmonale = what?
Pulmonary heart disease
What is Cor pulmonale?
Right sided heart failure secondary to lung conditions such as COPD
What does Cor Pulmonale not include? 2
- RT heart failure secondary to LT sided dysfunction
- Congenital heart disease
When does the acute pathophysiology of Cor pulmonale occur?
What is an indicator? 2
- Occurs after sudden and severe stimulus with RV dilation and failure
- No RVH
What are pathophysiology of Cor pulmonale? 3
Chronic: prolonged pressure overload of the RV as it ejects into the high resistance vascular bed
1. RV hypertrophied
2. RV dilation
3. RA enlargement
What is the gold standard for measuring pulmonary pressure?
PCWP