Heart failure can affect the right side or the left side of the heart, and often times it involves both sides of the heart. The most common causes for heart failure are …show more content…
In less than ordinary exertion symptoms appear making this classification a (class III). When symptoms appear while the person in at rest (class IV) is warranted. The following manifestations are present in CHF and are symptoms of decreased cardiac output that include weakness, fatigue, syncope, dizziness, decreased exercise tolerance. CHF also manifests increased pressure and congestion behind a failing ventricle. For example in the left ventricle failure sign and symptoms will include SOB, dyspnea, tachypnea; orthopnea, crackles, cough, and s3 gallops. Cyanosis may also be present in left ventricle failure. In right ventricle failure signs and symptoms include distended neck veins, liver enlargement with right upper quadrant pain, nausea, anorexia, and