Heart Failure Flashcards
Digoxin: brady or tachycardia?
brady
____ is produced and released by the ventricles when a client has fluid overload as a result of heart failure.
BNP
Long-term use of ________ causes fluid and sodium retention, which can worsen a client’s HF.
nsaids
What are these signs of? Client with pericarditis who has a paradoxical pulse and distended jugular veins
tamponade
Digoxin toxicity
sinus brady
fatigue
anorexia
Heart failure (HF), sometimes referred to as _____ failure, is a general term for the inability of the heart to work effectively as a _____.
pump
The major types of HF are
left-sided, right-sided, and high-output heart failure.
Most HF begins with failure of the ______ ventricle and progresses to failure of ____.
left
both
Compensatory mechanisms to improve cardiac output in heart failure:
- sympathetic nervous system stimulation,
- renin-angiotensin system activation,
- chemical responses, -myocardial hypertrophy.
In the majority of cases HF is caused by :
systemic hypertension
Impaired perfusion, pulmonary congestion, and edema indicate:
left ventricular failure
Systemic venous congestion and peripheral edema indicate:
right ventricular failure
______ ______ is the most reliable indicator of fluid gain or loss. Record weight and intake and output of patients with HF.
Daily weight
Early signs of pulmonary edema
crackles in the lung bases, dyspnea at rest, disorientation, confusion
sign of organ rejection is:
weight gain
