Management ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS
Predispositions to Heart Failure - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- Arrhythmia
- CAD
- Diabetes mellitus
- Smoking: causes vasoconstriction
- Obesity
- Pregnancy and thyrotoxicosis: increased demands on the heart
- Pulmonary embolism
- MI
Systolic Heart Failure - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅inability to pump blood effectively
Diastolic Heart Failure - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅ventricles become stiff and cannot
relax. Extra heart sounds are heard
Right Sided Heart Failure - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- no crackles
- elevated jugular venous pressure
- pitting edema
- ascites
- causes left sided heart failure
Left Sided Heart Failure - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- more common heart failure
- blood backs up
- pulmonary edema
- coarse crackles
Common Causes of LV Failure - CORRECT ANSWERS✅✅- aortic or mitral valve stenosis