Heart Failure

Question 1

cardiac reserve

Answer 1

hearts ability to increase cardiac output when needed ex running

Question 2

cardiac output

Answer 2

the amount of blood pumped from ventricles out in 1 min

Question 3

Heart rate

Answer 3

How many times heart is pumping

Question 4

Ejection fraction

Answer 4

% of blood that is pumped out

Question 5

HF will cause bradycardia or tachycardia?

Answer 5

tachycardia because you wont have a good contraction so you’ll have a decreased cardiac output

Question 6

HF will cause an increase or decrease in preload/afterload

Answer 6

increase

Question 7

symptoms of diastolic failure

Answer 7

SOB, crackles, DJV, congestion to atria

Question 8

if you have a decreased cardiac output what is your hr going to be?

Answer 8

increased

Question 9

Left sided HF s/s

Answer 9

Respiratory crackles, dizziness, pulmonary congestion, cough, frothy sputum, increased pulse (120 or higher)

Question 10

Right sided HF s/s

Answer 10

JVD, liver enlargement, nausea, decreased appetite-vomiting, peripheral edema

Question 11

Which arrhythmia is most common cause of HF?

Answer 11

Afib

Question 12

s/s of pulmonary edema

Answer 12

frothy sputum, crackles, labored breathing, dyspnea, SOB, feeling of impending doom, cool clammy skin

Question 13

HF in infants could be related to?

Answer 13

hypokalemia, severe anemia, rheumatic fever, myocarditis

Question 14

HF s/s in infants

Answer 14

pallor, excessive perspiration, pallor, cyanosis, dyspnea, tachycardia