Cardiovascular Essentials for Ambulatory Nurses – Advanced-Video Recording

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Video Summary

In this video, the speaker discusses heart failure. They provide several facts and statistics about heart failure, including its prevalence in the Southern region of the United States and its increasing rates. The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding the complexities of heart failure and encourages learning and reference use for better comprehension. They discuss the different types of heart failure, including systolic and diastolic, and highlight the difference between chronic and acute cases. Risk factors such as hypertension, CAD, drug and alcohol use, and endocrine issues are mentioned. The pathophysiology of heart failure is explained, including ventricular remodeling and the neurohormonal response. The speaker also discusses common symptoms, assessments, and diagnostic tools for heart failure, including physical assessments, labs, EKGs, echocardiograms, and chest x-rays. The stages of heart failure and their characteristics are outlined, and the types of heart failure based on ejection fraction are explained. The speaker concludes by introducing the concept of warm and wet, cold and wet, warm and dry, and cold and dry classification for determining appropriate therapies based on perfusion and volume status. This concludes part one of the video series, with part two to cover heart failure therapies.

Keywords

heart failure

prevalence

risk factors

diagnostic tools

ventricular remodeling

classification