Heart Failure with Atrial Fibrillation-Case Study
Knowing that the client has two risk factors that cannot be modified, which intervention is most important for the nurse to include in the client's plan of care? Complete a focused cardiac history assessment. --Myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease, and ischemic heart disease are among the most common underlying causes of heart failure. In fact, the most common cause of heart failure is myocardial infarction. The nurse should also ask the client if they have hypertension which is another primary underlying condition causing heart failure Right-sided, or right ventricular, heart failure often occurs due to left-sided heart failure when the weakened or stiff left ventricle cannot efficiently pump blood to the rest of the body. As a result, fluid is forced back through the lungs, weakening the heart's right side, causing right-sided heart failure. Which assessment finding provides the earliest indication that the client is experiencing right-sided heart failure? Peripheral edema
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