Jorgio has just lost an uncle to heart failure. He has just learned about the different types of heart failure. He wants to know about acute and chronic heart failure. Discuss the difference between acute and chronic heart failure
a. Are there any similarities between the two?
b. How is contractility compromised?
c. How is ejection fraction and cardiac output affected?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. Effects on circulation, both cause the client to tire easily, with pumping ability of the heart being affected gradually or suddenly depending on if chronic or acute
b. Contractility is impaired due to the heart's inability to contract.
c. As the heart loses its efficiency to pump, it loses its ejection fraction or the amount of blood ejected with each contraction of the heart. Decrease ejection fraction depending on amount of failure.
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