Tuesday, June 9, 2009

What Is a Nursing Diagnosis for CHF

. Tuesday, June 9, 2009

What Is a Nursing Diagnosis for CHF? Congestive Heart Failure CHF is the inability of the heart to pump blood in sufficient amount to meet the needs of the network nutrient and oxygen. The fundamental mechanism of heart failure including the nature of the damage contractile from the heart, leading to less pump sufficient blood from the normal heart. General conditions that underlie including atherosclerosis, atrial hypertension, and infections diseases or degenerative heart muscle. A number of systemic factors and can support the development of the illness of heart failure. Increased metabolic rate (for example: fever, coma, tiroktoksikosis), and anemia hypoxia need an increase in sufficient blood pump to meet the needs of the heart of oxygen.  For many patients, the symptoms of heart failure restrict the ability to perform activities of daily living, severely affecting quality of life. Advances in diagnostic and therapeutic techniques have greatly improved the outlook for these patients, but the prognosis still depends on the underlying cause and its response to treatment.


What is a nursing diagnosis for CHF?
Primary nursing diagnosis congestive heart failure CHF is; Decreased CO related to an ineffective ventricular pump, but there is common nursing diagnosis for CHF patients:
  • Activity intolerance
  • Decreased cardiac output
  • Excess fluid volume
  • Fatigue
  • Imbalanced nutrition: Less than body requirements
  • Impaired gas exchange
  • Ineffective airway clearance
  • Ineffective breathing pattern
  • Ineffective tissue perfusion: Cardiopulmonary

Related resource for CHF Nursing care:
Nursing care plans for Congestive Heart Failure CHF
Nursing interventions for Congestive Heart Failure CHF
Nursing outcome for Congestive Heart Failure CHF

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