Heart Failure Disease

Its medical term is called the "Heart Failure or Cardiac Failure", is a medical emergency in which the amount of blood pumped by the heart a person every minute (cardiac output (cardiac output)) is not able to meet the needs of the body's normal metabolism. Conditions of heart failure disease does not mean that the heart stops working (cardiac arrest), but the heart is no longer able to pump blood as well as its day-to-day for a person's body.

Impact of rapid heart failure affect the deficiency of blood supply, thus causing cell death due to lack of oxygen carried in the blood yand itself. Lack of oxygen supply to the brain (cerebral hypoxia), causing a person to lose consciousness and stop breathing suddenly resulting in death.

Congestive heart failure in infants and children is an emergency that is frequently encountered by officers kesehata. Complaints and symptoms vary widely, often difficult to distinguish from other diseases outside the heart.

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  Cause Disease Heart Failure
  Heart failure can be caused by primary disorders of the heart muscle itself or the burden of excessive heart. Most likely factor that causes heart failure disease are people who have hipertenisi disease, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), smoking, diabetes (diabetes), obesity (overweight) and someone who has a family history of heart disease and life course patterns are not regular and less air sports.

• Signs and Symptoms of Heart Failure Disease
  Signs and symptoms of heart failure disease can be differentiated based on which part of the heart's impaired pumping of blood, more details as follows:
  • left heart failure; cause collection of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), which causes severe shortness of breath. In the beginning, shortness of breath is felt only when someone doing the activity, but in line with worsening shortness of breath, the disease will also arise when patients are not doing activities. While other marks are quickly tired (fatigue), anxiety / worry (anxity), rapid heartbeat (tachycardia), cough and irregular heart rhythm degub (Arrhythmia).
  • The right heart failure, tends to cause the collection of blood that flows into the right heart. So this causes swelling in the feet, ankles, legs, abdomen (ascites) and liver (hepatomegaly). Other signs are nausea, vomiting, fatigue, rapid heartbeat, and frequent urination (urine) at night (nocturia)

• Disease Diagnosis Heart Failure
  Diagnosis is based on signs and symptoms complained of or that looked directly at examination. To strengthen the diagnosis, the doctor will perform various checks, for example;
  • Physical examination, the pulse weak and rapid pulse, decreased blood pressure, abnormal heart sounds, enlarged heart, swollen neck veins, fluid in the lungs, liver enlargement, rapid weight gain, swelling of the stomach or leg.
  • X-ray examination or X-ray (Roentgen), on the chest may reveal an enlarged heart and fluid collection in the lungs.
  • Inspection echocardiography (using sound waves to depict the heart) and electrocardiography (assessing the electrical activity of the heart).

• Treatment of Heart Failure Disease
  There are three basic things that a reference such as the treatment of heart failure itself, treatment of underlying disease and treatment of trigger factors.
  Included in the medical treatment is to reduce fluid and salt retention, increased cardiac contractility and reduce burden. While handling generally includes rest, setting the temperature and humidity, oxygen, fluid and diet.
  
  Provision of drugs, such as inotropic drugs (digitalis, intravenous inotropic drugs), vasodilator drugs (arteriolar dilators: hidralazin), venodilator (nitrate, nitroglycerin), mixed dilators (prazosin, captopril, nitroprusid), diuretics and drugs dysrhythmias.
  
  Surgery, this is usually done to cope with congenital heart disease (palliative, corrective) and acquired heart disease (valvuloplasti, valve replacement).

• Disease Prevention Heart Failure
  Examined immediately by a doctor for those of you who feel the signs and symptoms as mentioned above. Reduce factors that can cause heart failure condition, stop smoking, reduce the consumption of fatty foods, try exercise, patterns or danger of life regularly. Of course, for those who suffered or suffer from diseases that can result in heart failure should lead the attack routine to kontrolkan myself to the doctor, for example, people with high blood pressure (hypertension), diabetes (Diabetes), the buildup of plaque (cholesterol or other) in heart blood vessels ( Coronary Artery Disease).