CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE

Congestive Heart Failure - Outline



Introduction

Thesis Statement

If patient with congestive heart failure are provided with education, and trained nurse monitoring, hospital admission rates will be reduced.

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Over 5 million people in the United States, mostly elderly, suffer from heart failure, and the number continues to grow, registering about 400,000 new cases each year (McMurray, Pfeffer, 2005).

According to the American Heart Association, people over 40 years of age have a 1 in 5 chance of having ICC at some point in their lives (Baldasseroni, Opasich, Gorini, Lucci, 2002).

Due to the fact that, today, people live longer and survive other medical problems such as heart attacks, which increase the risk of heart failure.

The early diagnosis of heart failure, and, therefore, early treatment are the key to success in the treatment of the syndrome (McMurray, Pfeffer, 2005).

At the present time, due to a serious leap of knowledge in cardiology, the disease can take long to keep "in check".

Drugs, tailored specifically for a professional cardiologist not only significantly prolong life, but will make it a comfortable, harmonious, free.

In 2006, an estimated 807.082 men and women over 65 were hospitalized for heart failure, whereas, there were 348.866 in 1980, an increase of 131 percent (Raphael, Briscoe, Davies, 2007).

"Maybe if you talk to any cardiologist, regardless of practice setting, and even a primary care physician working in a hospital, you will find it extremely common," said Dr. John Erwin III, an associate professor of medicine internal medicine at the Center College of Health Sciences Texas A & M and principal cardiologist at Scott & White in Temple (He, Ogden, Bazzano, Vupputuri, 2001).

"By far, heart failure is the principal diagnosis code when patients are admitted to hospital, particularly among those over 54" (Raphael, Briscoe, Davies, 2007).

There was a relationship between the rates of hospitalization for heart failure ...