Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure is sometimes simply called “heart failure”. It is the leading cause of hospitalization in people over 65 affecting about 670,000 Americans annually. Currently nearly 6 million persons in the United States have a diagnosis of heart failure.
Heart failure doesn’t mean that the heart has “stopped” working, but, that its pumping ability is weaker than normal. With heart failure, the pressure in the heart increases because the blood moves through the heart and body at a slower rate. As this happens the chambers of the heart may slowly change by stretching to hold more blood to pump through the body or by becoming stiff and thickened. This helps to keep the blood moving for a while, but eventually the heart muscle walls become weakened and then unable to pump efficiently. The next thing that usually happens is the kidneys respond by causing the body to retain fluid (water) and salt. The body becomes congested as this fluid builds up in the arms, legs, ankles, feet, lungs, or other organs. This condition is described now as “congestive heart failure”.
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), is a usually a chronic illness that affects the chambers of the heart. There are four chambers in the heart. The upper half of the heart is known as the atria which is divided into 2 sides, the left and the right side, and the other lower half is the left and right ventricles. A healthy normal heart is a strong, muscular pump somewhat bigger than a clenched hand. It pumps blood continuously through the circulatory system. The right atria takes in deoxygenated blood from the systemic circulation and sends it back out to the lungs through the right ventricles where the blood gets to be oxygenated. Oxygenated blood leaves the lungs, travels to the left atrium, then on to the left ventricles, which pumps it to the systemic circulation to provide oxygen and nutrient rich blood to the different organs and tissues. The heart pumps blood to the lungs and to all the body’s different organs and tissues by a sequence of highly organized contractions of the four chambers. For the heart to function properly, the four chambers must beat in an organized way.
With heart failure, the heart muscles becomes weak for various reasons, making the heart slowly lose the capacity to pump enough blood throughout the body to meet the body’s demand of oxygen and nutrients. As the heart’s pumping turns out to be less effective, blood may back up into different zones of the body. Fluid may build up in the lungs, liver, gastrointestinal tract, and the arms and legs. Thus, it is called Congestive Heart Failure (CHF).
There are two fundamental issues in congestive heart failure:
Systolic dysfunction - when the heart can’t pump enough blood supply to meet the body’s demand.
Diastolic dysfunction - when the heart cannot accept all the blood being sent in.
Sadly, many people suffer with both systolic and diastolic heart failure.
Causes:
CHF is often a chronic condition, yet it may come on all of a sudden. It can be brought about by various heart problems. The condition may affect just the right side or just the left half of the heart. But more often, both sides of the heart are involved.
The most common causes of CHF are:
Coronary artery disease (CAD) - a condition wherein cholesterol and other types of fatty substances blocks or narrows the arteries that supply the heart with blood. This can weaken the heart muscle over time or suddenly.
High blood pressure - persistent/not well controlled/untreated hypertension forces the heart to pump against higher pressure, causing the heart muscles to weaken over time.
Less common causes:
Heart valves disease - heart valves that are not properly working by being too narrow or leaky
Endocarditis or myocarditis - infection causing inflammation of the heart muscles
Arrhythmias
Heart attack
Excessive use of alcohol or drugs
Diabetes
Being obese or overweight
High blood cholesterol
Heart muscle disease of unknown cause
Kidney conditions that increases blood pressure and fluid buildup
Other medical conditions such as thyroid diseases or anemia
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From a Pharmacy student in Ireland, Thank you :) I love how you read out the bullet points and put in illustrations/videos. Keep them coming!
I LOVE ALL THE CONTEST OF UR EXPLANATION. NEVER STOP! THANK U.
I love all of your videos. You do such an amazing job at simplifying complicated subjects. Would you consider doing a video on CABG surgery? I'm working on a Cardiology unit as a student nurse and I see a lot of these. Thank you
I noticed in this video your rate of speaking is slowed down . THANK YOU!!!! I love your videos, they have helped me understand things in nursing school so much. Thank you for making all your videos.
@empowern
6 жыл бұрын
+Heather Dawn Thank you for noticing 😊 so glad the videos help you!!
Thanks so much for your video, I am not a nurse but my father died of congestive heart failure and I have recently been having issues that might indicate heart issues. I couldn't find any info that really explained this condition until I came upon your video. keep up the good work!
Thank you so much Carolyn for this video. I know as nurses we must always review to keep up with the changes in medicine, but with life it can be soo hectic!! I would like to know what do you do to help you keep up with CEU's and work, and family responsibilities. I know balance is key, but I am toppling over!
Love all your videos....thank you. I hope you can do pathophysiology. I used most of your videos for theory and pharma
Nicely done! Thanks.
Awesome video! Nice, simple and straight to the point! As a nursing student, videos like this come in very handy. Thanks!
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Dan Rodriguez Glad to hear that Dan! Thanks for letting me know you like the video. I hope it helps you a lot. Can't wait to see you here again. -xoxo
Great job! Thanks so much!
Thanks for this video! I have a pharm exam over HF and the meds associated in a week and this is a great, thorough run through. I will share with my friends! Ps: we learned in class that CHF is almost always referred to as HF in practice, since not all cases of HF include congestion. Just thought that would be a fun fact to share :) thanks again!
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Cam B Hi Cam! It is so nice the hear from you! Thanks so much for letting me know that you liked the video!! Thank you also for sharing the fun fact :) I do know that, but it seems like everyone refers to it still as CHF. Maybe in the future this will change :) Looking forward to seeing you on here again very soon! xoxo - Caroline
Very descriptive thank you !
Thank you so much.
Very well put together video you have done. Just wanted to point out a few things though. 12:08 you mentioned for salt intake of 2000 grams daily, I believe you meant 2000 milligrams. Other than that, I am not sure if guidelines still recommend ACE+ARB combos anymore. Very educational and informative.
Hello. Beautiful girl!!! Thank CAROLINE, for your time and effort for the videos for US on youtube. Have a good day in USA. GOD bless YOU. Bye. Rudi from EUROPA.
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Manfred Bismark Hi Rudi!! Thank you so much for letting me know that you liked the video!! So cool how youtube connects us all from around the world ;) Looking forward to seeing you on here again soon!! xoxo - Caroline
Thank you.
thanks so much very informative
I love this videos very informative put I wish they had more nursing care. What does the nurse due for someone with CHF
YOU ARE THE BEST!!!
Love it! Very thorough
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Nurse Bass Thanks so much for letting me know!! xoxo - Caroline
it really helps. 😄 but can i just suggest one thing? if u can also give rationale to all of those sign and symptoms of each diseases. thank you!
amazing, information is explained very well. thank you so much.
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Tommy Law Hi Tommy, You're welcome! Thank you too for letting me know about how you like the video. I appreciate it a lot. Looking forward on hearing from you again soon. -xoxo
Great work.
thank you very much
BRILLIANT THANK YOU
thank you so mush
Aloha! I love your videos and teaching style. I am the Clinical Development Coordinator for a skilled nursing community in Maui (I know... I'm living the dream here) and am therefore responsible for connecting our nursing staff with relevant, evidence-based education on common diseases/ailments of our residents. I would like to include your video/content on the education system we use, Relias. Of course, I want to be sure that you get full credit for this content, which brings me to this question... Do I have your permission to proceed in putting your CHF video on my training site? If so what, if any, limitations are there for me in using your video/content? Thank you! (Mahalo!)
Thank you we should all look out for symptoms in us and loved ones
Very helpful info
Great help..i was diagnosed with acute heart failure..thank you
Nice video... Explain my condition better to understand!
thanks........
Please do a more detailed video on CAD including STEMI, NSTEMI and stable angina. Meds/intervention to take for each scenario :))
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+hell0h0bbit Hi love!! Thanks so much for the request!! I put these on the list!! Please continue to let me know what you would like to see!! ❤️ - Caroline
Thank you so much
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Soso 1993soso Your very welcome ;) Thanks for letting me know that you like it!! See you soon I hope ;) xoxo - Caroline
Thank you so much 😘
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+pawanjit gill Your welcome love!!
thanks! i'm a pharmacy student and it helps me :) appreciate it
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Abood Ahmed Hi Abood! Really glad to hear you found the channel & like it! Keep in touch & let me know if there are any videos that you would like to see. Looking forward to hearing from you soon! xoxo - Caroline
Super liked, thanks a lot!
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Just_Tarts You are super welcome! :) -xoxo
Great Informational Video!!!
@empowern
6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Cheri!
iam vet student and this viedo help me thanks ❤
I love your videos, they are very professional and are a wonderful study aid to learn and reinforce knowledge. Thank you for you professionalism and taking the time to help others in our journey. ( just a mistake in your metric system, in this video you said less than 2000 g of Na, in stead of mg. )
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+spartacus valencia Thanks so much love! Your right, a mistake on my part :) Thanks for letting me know! Looking forward to seeing you on here again soon! xoxo! - Caroline
May I recommend that you re-record the vocal track so that there is no longer the echo to it because it is distracting and makes it harder to stay with you mentally? This is the first video of yours I've heard this echo so I know it is not a normal thing. :)
iam vet student and this viedo help me thanks for you
Very informative & thoroughly done. The hands drive me crazy though, lol 😂 thx for sharing!
thank you so much..now i understand!!!
@empowern
5 жыл бұрын
Your welcome! Thanks so much for watching!!
I prefer it, but some of performances have too words that difficultly reading!
thx alot nextime think about us on r tablets I can't click a link on the vid put it n the disctitipion
Hi, last week we learned this and my professor said that we should no longer call it "congestive", and that CHF now refers to chronic heart failure.. just wondering if you knew if this was accurate or not?
excellent
@empowern
7 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Ok plz if you have answer for this . Some times if i working hard my right side of all my body begin all pain , but the left side nothing I go dr many times but no result Plz if you have answer for that
I have a very hard time focusing on the information in these videos.
excellent and helpful too me
@sandraprice6379
7 жыл бұрын
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KEEP THE HANDS SILENT.....
video is nice : )
I love it
I'm in my early 30s. I had an EF of 36% on coreg and lisinipril I went back up to 46% then dropped recently back to 40% and was told I wasn't stable enough for cardiac rehab. I'm told it's non ischemic cardiomyopathy. I've been to several prominent heart hospitals and specialist and cannot find a cause despite all test. No drinking. No drugs. Any ideas?
@vikrambansal1375
2 жыл бұрын
How are you doing now bro ?
As a stage 4 CHF person B1, selenium, calcium, and other more generic nutrients, I have been healing and losing water. So, pretty girl aside, I found this video lacking. All the conditions listed here are symptoms of poor nutrition from personal experience. Food treated with 2-4-D and glyphosate is what caused my decent into the nutritionally deficient. Oh, I forgot to include my new diet when I found out I was to die soon. I chose a high good fat carnivore/ keto with normal salt intake (to digest the meat, fats, and minerals). So, no carbs, and 129 nutrients including 77 minerals and elements, 18 vitamins, 3 fatty acids, and 12 amino acids, plus probiotics, prebiotics, enzymes all of this is way cheaper then conventional medicine and I'm starting to feel better and get around again.
do we HAVE to have a computer do this report?
@empowern
7 жыл бұрын
To do what report?
Video lecture for idiopathic bronchiectasis please
I think you meant 2,000mg of sodium, not grams!
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+snowflake891000 oh yea... whoops! Your right 2G... 2,000mg 😁
My family member has this and it’s terminal which means he will die soon 😢😫😫 it’s hard because I just found out and he’s is very close to my family.
great legs
I just had a heart failure watching you 🤗
"T" is missing in "Heart" God bless!
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Russo Simon (R) Hi Russo! Oops!! Thank you for letting me know!! See you soon! - Caroline
@RussoSimon
8 жыл бұрын
+EmpoweRN You're welcome!
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+Russo Simon (R) :)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH NO!!!!! 4.39 its left side of the hearth ..
I got it at 39 you lost me already
5 stars _
thanks b4 i see it 😂
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+john legend Haha thanks John 🙌👍
A more conservative dress is appropriate. Nevertheless, love the presentation.
CHF is not this simplistic. I have had CHF for 61 years now and may have a different perspective. Your body is comprised of millions of different types of carbon based cells that need nutrition and oxygen to survival. If the cell or cells needs are no being met, the your body starts to employ the first steps of necrosis (death). If your cell or cells needs continue to languish, then more steps will be taken toward necrosis or death of the cell or cells. In the case of CHF your heart's output, that includes a fresh oxygen supply, is below your cell or cells needs then steps toward death occurs. The longer your heart is underperforms the greater the accumulation of Oxygen Deficit. Your growing Oxygen Deficit is noticed by your body's cells and organs. When your car does not have enough gas the car slows down to compensate. Your body adjusts in th same way. Your organs and systems slow down. If your car runs out of as the car stops and so does your life. The fluids that flow out of your blood vessels to bring oxygen and nutrition to your cells does not return to your blood vessels to be recycle via your heart. It returns through your lymphatic system that congregates into your artery just before the artery enters the right side of your heart. It is NOT pumped and has NO blood pressure. The fluid is moved via capillary action of the blood moving through the artery (Superior Vena Cava). If CHF is causing a lower blood flow through the heart the an inadequate amount of returning lymphatic fluid is being moved back into circulation and fluid backs up into your cells causing edema. As CHF continues more of your organs and functions begin to slow down leading to death. I have had CHF for 61 years now and can appreciate God's mercy and love for me.
@dm-wg7qk
4 жыл бұрын
What did you do to survive chf that long?
@ricahrdvelez8817
4 жыл бұрын
How you alive?
I can't feel my heartbeat in my chest anymore, i can see it at my abdominal aorta though. My body is always pale and not doing good. I don't k ow what's wrong with me, but thanks to Obama I don't have a doctor.
@wunpinilegend3274
6 жыл бұрын
Arizona Skywatch go and ask trump for your doctor now...bet you voted for him too
iam vet student and this viedo help me thanks for you
iam vet student and this viedo help me thanks for you
@Kekoa552
7 жыл бұрын
I Don't even think your a Vet You Spelled *Video* wrong
iam vet student and this viedo help me thanks for you
@empowern
8 жыл бұрын
+shosho AB My pleasure! Thanks for letting me know this helps. It means a lot. -xoxo
@artistbesho5215
8 жыл бұрын
can you made video about action of drug when enter the body...please
@allaboutdatGDA
7 жыл бұрын
boshra night I make happy this heart helps take me video. Need more. cookies.