CARDIORESPIRATORY COMPLEXITIES: CASE STUDY MRS.J

Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF), is a condition that occurs in individuals with pre-existing heart failure. It refers to a worsening of symptoms due to fluid retention (volume overload). ADHF also cause fatigues which makes an individual unable to perform activities of daily living thereby affecting their quality of. Mrs. J complains of feeling exhausted and anxious is associated with the body not receiving enough oxygen-rich blood due to the heart’s ineffective pumping. In addition, patient may have pulmonary edema with manifestations, such as coughing frothy blood-tinged sputum, feeling air hunger, anxiety, crackles lung sound, abnormal heart sound, tachycardia (Mayo Clinic, 2019) with a ventricular rate of 132, which explains why she states that her heart is racing, Furthermore, she has bilateral jugular vein distension which is an indication that she is having a right sided heart failure (Healthgrades,