Nursing 3920A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ventricular Septal Defect, Jugular Venous Pressure, Congenital Heart Defect
6 Feb 2018
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Outline: heart failure, what are the manifestations of heart failure, how does this affect your client, assessment & management. Rates for hf increasing, higher risk of death compared to cancer. Constellation of co-morbidities with the patient averaging 2. 7 additional diagnoses: hospitalizations are frequent, lengthy, and costlymean 13 days, higher in rural population: more elderly in country (stats can) Re-hospitalization frequent - ho(cid:449) (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:449)e i(cid:373)p(cid:396)o(cid:448)e upo(cid:374) this? (cid:894)outpatie(cid:374)t, ho(cid:373)e (cid:272)a(cid:396)e, (cid:396)eha(cid:271) (cid:895). Symptom of heart disease, long-standing hypertension and cad. Reduced activity tolerance, q of l, and shortened life expectancy. 33% of patients with hf die within 1 year: most common reason for hospitalization > 65, creating high economic health care burden, q of l = quality of life. Co = amount of blood pumped in one minute. Preload = determined by venous return, volume of blood that enters the ventricle during diastole.
