What’s an illness that is diagnosed by a cluster of symptoms and can have pink frothy sputum? Heart Failure!

To say heart failure is a complicated diagnosis is an understatement. As clinicians, we have to think about the underlying pathophysiology to understand patient presentation, how to direct treatment (coming next week to your favorite pod) and how we can help our patients navigate this diagnosis that can feel overwhelming, even to us!

 In this episode, Dr. Burriesci goes through the pathophys of heart failure and the subsequent signs and symptoms that result.  She explains that the pressures exerted on the chamber, the afterload, cause the chamber to fail over time and cause a back-up. Follow the back-up and you will find the symptoms.  We flow further into the information by looking into what other systems are impacted when the body begins to compensate for heart failure. This again impacts how we, as clinicians, will chart review, think about testing and how we treat our patients. All of these factors help set our patients up for success over the years.

 
In This Episode:

• Difference between left and right heart failure 
• Difference between systolic and diastolic dysfunction 
• Structural difference between dilated and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• Signs and symptoms common in both left and right heart failure
• Discuss the systems compensations in response to failure

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