To define heart failure or
Cognitive Heart Failure, it is important to refer to it as a condition of the
heart disability of meeting the body metabolic needs via pumping the needed
amount of blood to it and it is a physiologic state that occurs to human body
due to changing functions of the left ventricle systolic and diastolic. The
normal blood volume is very essential for the body and when it is difficult to
manage it by the hear, heart failure occurs. Some diseases can cause it as
intrinsic disease. Heart failure is not a disease specifically and there are
some other conditions that helps its development as such conditions could share
in the heart damage or weakness which leads the heart to the state of
disability to pump blood. Heart muscles may be weak , ventricles may dilate and
failure occurs. Not all cases of heart failure are congestive as a person may
only suffer breath shortness or weakness due to heart failure but not a must to
have fluid building up. Right side, left side or both heart sides could be
affected by the heart failure but the left side is the most frequent begin of
heart failure. A specialist nurse can be very helpful in cases of heart failure
as she can provide the patient with health care that could cover any
deficiencies in the medical care provided to him or her. Routine care must be
allied with the nursing interventions which proved to reduce relevant death
cases to chronic heart failure. Nursing
interventions related to heart failure states can include contacting patients
by telephones and planned home visitations in order to provide them with the
best education regarding treating heart failure and how to deal with the
situation as well as encouraging patients to follow a special dietary system
that helps them to be cured soon and to take the needed drugs for treatment
besides following a sporting exercise program suitable for their health
condition. Self management is also taught via nursing interventions as a
patient needs to know how to monitor his case and early detect any signs of
heart failure. A nurse should be helped by the work of other members in the
multidisciplinary team specially social workers and psychologists who can
provide patients with psychological help when needed. A nurse can do the
routine hospital interventions which include assessing the patient's heart
rhythm and frequency, assessing the pallor and cyanosis skin, recording sounds
of the heart as well as ensuring that the patient is receiving care in a clean
safe comfortable care environment in heart failure 1 which differs in heart
failure2 and 3. When the nursing interventions done specifically and carefully
by a specialized nurse who is well acknowledged with the nursing role,
readmission risks can be reduced in the hospital as well as reducing deaths
rates specially in old aged patients. Nursing interventions in heart failure
cases are very important specially when the case is still in the beginning as
educating the patient to follow a diet and do some exercises can help a lot in
preventing future patient complications.
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