Bedside of a patient suffering from heart failure, the doctor noted clinical signs that may indicate the origin, the impact upstream and downstream of heart failure and its severity. To treat acute heart failure, we need to protect the brain hypoxia and is therefore of oxygen with a mask for example. The rest is also essential. At the same time, it should also relieve the heart by reducing hypertension in the venous flow upstream: the past, doctors used the bloodletting now it prescribe diuretics that remove water and salt: These medicines therefore decrease the edema (lung, lower limbs, …) and relieve the heart. It must also address the root of heart failure as far as possible incentives to restart the heart pump, an antihypertensive to reduce hypertension, treatment of heart rhythm disturbances with drugs or by installing a battery, … Even consider a heart transplant. To discourage heart failure, dietary salt will be required to reduce water retention, physical activity will be moderate, depending on the degree of heart failure to relieve the heart.

Remember

Heart failure is a serious illness, often due to hypertension or coronary heart disease, which are often secondary to the deposit of atheroma plaques in the arteries. Heart failure tends to worsen irreparably if the cause is not addressed. It is necessary to follow the advice of doctors, have a moderate physical activity, to follow hygienic-the dietary rules proposed by the medical profession, to have regular consultations to the doctor to monitor the disease and tailor therapy if necessary.