Treatment For Heart Failure

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Jillian great post. Heart failure is when the heart is either not pumping enough blood into circulation or when the ventricles are not filling properly. Heart failure can result from many different conditions; some of the conditions that heart failure can result from are CAD, hypertension, dilated cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, and MI (Higgerson, n.d. & Mattson Porth, 2015). Since it seems that the right and left side of the heart are being affected now the provider could expect to see weakness, confusion, anxiety memory impairment, headaches, insomnia, nausea and/or vomiting, and anoxia.

Treatment for the patient for the heart failure would include the medications discussed in the scenario. Lasix and Digitalis are going to allow

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