NURSING 3PA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Atrial Fibrillation, Chronic Kidney Disease, Pulmonary Artery
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Congestive heart failure is the inability of the heart to adequately pump blood throughout the body. Heart failure can be left-sided, right-sided or both. Heart failure has many causes, and is becoming more prevalent which each coming year. In canada, 500,000 individuals are living with this disease, increasing annually by 50,000 (hannon, pooler & This assignment reflects my interaction with a 72-year-old man with multiple hospital admissions within the past year due to chronic heart failure exacerbations and rapid atrial fibrillation. The most recent hospital admission was a exacerbation of chronic heart failure, stage two. Causes of heart failure for this patient can be assumed is pre-existing coronary artery disease leading to myocardial infarction where the ventricle has suffered enough damage that it impaired contraction. His past medical history includes hypertension (well controlled), gerd, atrial fibrillation (baseline hr between 90-100), dyslipidemia, chronic kidney failure (baseline creatinine of 180), and type to diabetes (well controlled).
