Shortness of breath

asthma, we will now move on to the symptoms of asthma. There are 4 common symptoms of asthma: coughing, especially at night, wheezing, shortness of breath, and chest tightness, pain or pressure. There are also warning signs to an asthma attack. Many of these warning signs are similar to the common symptoms. The warning signs are: frequent cough, shortness of breath, feeling very tired or weak when exercising, wheezing or coughing after exercise, feeling very tired or moody, and trouble sleeping.…

Congestive heart failure is a result of the ventricles not being able to pump an adequate amount of blood to the body. This causes blood and other fluids to back up inside the lungs, abdomen, liver, and lower body. Some signs and symptoms of CHF are shortness of breath and rapid breathing (Geib, Plappert, Roth & Birner, et al., 2015). Sallie was given discharge orders to allow the Mountain Medical Group to place concentrated oxygen in her home. She chooses not to comply with this order (probably…

Congestive Heart Failure The heart is fundamentally a blood pump. It pumps blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs to pick up oxygen. The oxygenated blood returns to the left side of the heart. The left side of the heart then pumps blood into the circulatory system of blood vessels that carry blood throughout the body. Heart failure is an illness in which the pumping action of the heart becomes less and less powerful. When this happens, blood does not move efficiently through the…

limited to, emphysema, asthma, and even chronic bronchitis. In order to determine if you have COPD, a spirometry test can be performed to determine the amount of air expelled from your lungs. Those that suffer from this describe it as having a shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing and having tightness in their chest. During the early stages of COPD signs and symptoms are not very blunt. Letting your doctor know as soon as any signs or symptoms occur can help prevent or get it under control to…

(Wheaton et al., 2015). And 24% of patients with COPD are unable to work compared to 5 % of people without COPD (Wheaton et al., 2015). The inability for COPD patients to work is caused by activity limitations and difficulty in walking from shortness of breath and muscle wasting (Wheaton et al.,…

failure, or CHF, is the condition where the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body’s needs. This inability to pump blood appropriately can affect one or both sides of the heart. The weakened heart can cause many complications like edema, shortness of breath, weakness, arrhythmias, and it can cause blood and fluid to back up in the lungs. The heart is a very important organ and treatment should be done as soon as possible. This is where the core measures, which are implemented in the…

surroundings, water, food, air, unhealthful gases, smoke, and pollution, or by AN unknown origin. carditis is elicited by infection of muscle by virus like pathology and immune diseases. The symptoms embody pain, angina, pain in muscle, and shortness of breath, edema, swelling of feet or ankles, and fatigue. The ECG, X-ray, and MRI will diagnose the disease; biopsy and rise in…

include: a sibling that had respiratory distress syndrome, mother that had diabetes, c-section or labor delivery before the baby was full term, and fast labor. •Signs and symptoms of respiratory distress syndrome are: fast breathing, fever, shortness of breath, low oxygen in the body, bluish coloring of the skin, coughing and weakness in the muscles. •Complete…

patients themselves. It is important for any person to know the risk factors for heart attack due to its deadly implications. For women, the signs and symptoms can be much the same as the commonly known: chest pain, shoulder and arm pain, shortness of breath. In many cases, though, obscure symptoms go unnoticed or ignored. Knowing the symptoms of heart attack could decrease mortality after a experiencing a heart attack, because when it comes to the matter of the heart, minutes matter. It could…

knee replacement on September 28th. The surgery went well and the patient was discharged on September 30th. On October 8th the patient was taken to the hospital by ambulance. His chief complaint was shortness of breath and tight and constant chest pain radiating to the left shoulder. Upon arrival his breath sounds were diminished. His CT scan revealed he had over 30 small clots in in his lungs. Even though my patient was on deep vein thrombosis (DVT) prophylaxis and participating in…