DEFINITION
Heart disease is the 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) is not able to meet the needs of the body's normal metabolism.
The impact of rapid heart failure affects the blood supply shortage, 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 that lead to death.
Congestive heart failure in infants and children is an emergency that is frequently encountered by health professionals wherever located. Complaints and symptoms vary widely so it is often difficult to distinguish from other diseases beyond the heart. Conditions on 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 the daily duties of a person's body.
Classification of Diseases Heart Failure
The heart chamber is divided into four chambers Porch Porch Right and Left are separated by a septum Intratrial, then room Right and Left room separated by the interventricular septum. Heart failure can occur on one side of the heart, such as heart failure or left side right side heart failure alone.
Disease Causes Heart Failure
Heart failure can be caused by a primary disorder of heart muscle itself or the excessive burden of the heart or a combination of both. Broadly speaking, possible factors that cause heart failure disease are people who have hypertension, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), smoking, diabetes (diabetes), obesity (overweight), and someone who has a family history of heart disease, and of course the pattern of living a disorganized and lack of exercise.
Signs and Symptoms of Heart Failure
Signs and symptoms of heart failure can be distinguished by which part of the heart's impaired pumping of blood, more details as follows:
Left heart failure; led to the collection of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), which causes severe shortness of breath. Shortness of breath initially felt only when someone is doing the activity, but in line with the worsening of the disease is shortness of breath may occur when the patient is not doing the activity. While other signs are fatigue (fatigue), anxiety / worry (anxity), rapid heartbeat (tachycardia), the coughing and the rhythm of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia).
Heart failure while the right hand; likely to result in the collection of blood flowing to the right side of the heart, so this causes swelling in the legs, ankles, legs, abdomen (ascites) and liver (Hepatomegaly). Other signs include nausea and vomiting, fatigue, rapid heartbeat and frequent urination at night (nocturia).
Disease Diagnosis Heart Failure
Usually, the diagnosis is established based on signs and symptoms complained of or that looks directly at the examination. To confirm the diagnosis, the doctor will perform various checks, for example;
Physical examination, the pulse weak and rapid pulse, decreased blood pressure, abnormal heart sounds, heart enlargement, swelling of the neck veins, fluid in lungs, liver enlargement, rapid weight gain, swelling of the abdomen or legs.
X-ray examination or X-ray (rontgent), on the chest may reveal heart enlargement and fluid collection in the lungs.
Echocardiography examination (using sound waves to describe the heart) and electrocardiography (assessing the electrical activity of the heart).
Treatment of Heart Failure
In the management or treatment of patients with congestive heart disease cases, there are three fundamental things that a reference, among others; the treatment of heart failure itself, treatment of underlying disease, and treatment of precipitating factors. Included in the medical treatment is to reduce fluid and salt retention, increased cardiac contractility and reduce burden. While handling generally include rest, setting the temperature and humidity, oxygen, fluids and diet.
Provision of drugs, such as inotropic drugs (digitalis, intravenous inotropic medications), a vasodilator drug (arteriolar dilators: hidralazin), venodilator (nitrate, nitroglycerin), mixed dilator (prazosin, captopril, nitroprusid), diuretics, and medicines 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
For those of you who feel the signs and symptoms as mentioned above, you should immediately memeriksaakan doctor. Reducing factors that can cause heart failure conditions, smoking cessation, reduce consumption of fatty foods, try to exercise, pattern or haya regular life. Certainly for those who suffered or suffer from diseases that could result in attacks cause heart failure should be routinely mengkontrolkan a doctor,
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