CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE

Congestive Heart Failure - Literature Review



Literature Review

Who is at increased risk of heart failure and what causes it?

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). 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). This is 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. People who suffer from other forms of cardiovascular disease are also at higher risk of heart failure (McMurray, Pfeffer, 2005).

Early diagnosis and treatment of heart failure

Therefore, people begin to notice the heart of the "pranks" you should always remember: 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 be 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. A patient suffering from cardiac failure, longer life afflicts people close to him (McMurray, Pfeffer, 2005).

As for acute heart failure, it is terrible, but a rare form of the disease. Acute cardio - vascular insufficiency manifested unexpected or sudden attacks of breathlessness, often at night, and requires urgent medical care. Acute heart failure is complicated by pulmonary edema or cardiac asthma (Rang, 2003). Cardiac asthma in turn causes bouts of dyspnea and hemoptysis caused by acute heart failure. In this case, a cardiologist on site and eliminates the swelling, but, nevertheless, hospitalization is required. Acute cardio-vascular insufficiency related to emergency conditions (Baldasseroni, Opasich, Gorini, Lucci, 2002). Long-term treatment can prevent recurrent acute cardiovascular failure. Our heart has a good compensatory capacity. Identified lack of time will allow you to "hold" it in a relatively safe range, preventing attacks of acute cardiovascular failure (Rang, 2003).

Hospitalizations for heart failure increases substantially

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 an 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, said" (Raphael, Briscoe, Davies, 2007). Clearly, we know that older patients require longer hospital stays and often have other co morbidities [disease], such as kidney failure ...