The key to treating congestive heart failure is addressing the underlying causes, and treatment is highly tailored to each patient's needs. Chris Bell, an acute care nurse practitioner who specializes ...

Background Aortic stenosis is a degenerative condition with high mortality in its severe stages and no preventive treatment.

Blood pressure during a heart attack could read as normal, elevated, or low, depending on the affected heart area. For example, a heart attack affecting the lower right part of the heart (an inferior ...

Heart failure is a condition that occurs when the heart can’t pump as well as it should. This may happen when the heart muscle becomes weak or stiff. As a result, it doesn’t deliver enough blood to ...

It’s also more prevalent in men and those who have experienced congestive heart failure. The use of alcohol ... with the patient wearing a blood-oxygen measuring device clipped to a fingertip.

The immune response to infections may become dysregulated and promote myocardial damage contributing to heart failure (HF ... weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared. Blood pressure ...

Pulsus paradoxus is a drop in blood pressure of more than 10 mmHg (millimeters of mercury) when taking a breath. It's a very specific sign that can only be adequately recognized when monitoring ...

Patients with myocardial infarction, unstable angina, or congestive heart failure occurring within one month of ... and the dose was then increased to 10 μg/kg/min for five more minutes. Blood ...

congestive heart failure and depression. Nursing home QICs (four studies) focused on pain management, falls prevention and pressure ulcers. Siriwardena et al 18 reported the only ambulance service QIC ...

Joanne Matos, 37, was born with an enlarged heart and has congestive heart failure. Despite a stroke and two silent heart ...

Fresh research details a method than can detect congestive heart failure (CHF) using smartwatch ECG data with an impressive ...