Question

Kate Glasgow, a 76-year-old patient with a history of CHF, is in the office today for a checkup. She does not understand why she must stop using salt and start weighing herself regularly at home. What can Adam do to help this patient understand the importance of her treatment regimen?

In 250-300 words, write a paper that answers the questions within the Critical Thinking Application. Once a patient has been diagnosed with CHF congestive heart failure, the patient must change their lifestyle and personal habits. How would you explain what CHF is to the patient? How would you make him/her understand the dangers of excess salt? How would you explain the importance of regularly weighing themselves and what weight changes should warrant a call to their care provider?

* Students demonstrates understanding of proper diet, especially sodium intake and lifestyle change.

* Student demonstrates proper communication when dealing with a patient who doesn’t understand why they need to change their lifestyle; student is able to describe the different options they would present to the patient, such as; dieticians, education of CHF, and support groups.

* Assignment guidelines were followed (including proper spelling, grammar, and APA Style format; in addition to standard guidelines).

Answer 1

CHF, congestive heart failure simply refered as heart failure is a chronic condition which affects the pumping of the heart muscles.Our heart has four chambers.2 atria and 2 ventricle. The ventricles are the one which pump the blood to the body organs and tissues while the atria are the one which receives the blood back from the body to the heart.But sometimes the ventricles will not be able to pump the blood to the body organs and tissues.This condition is called as CHF.

TheCHF has mainly four stages.And the causes of this condition can vary from person to person because it depends upon one's lifestyle.Some can have high blood pressure while some can have high cholesterol. We all think that this condition will only affect elderly people but this is false statement because this can affect small children also.The symptoms include weight gaining, fatigue, swelling in ankles and also can experience a heart attack.The doctor can diagnose this in many ways by using many diagnostic test such as electrocardiogram and so on..

The treatment is the most important one. The doctor provides various medications such as beta blockers,ACB inhibitors etc..But along with the medication one should change the lifestyle. Lifestyle means one should do regular exercise and also take a healthy diet. One should maintain a normal weight.Check regularly the weight gaining . Weight can be maintained by intaking healthy diet and also doing exercises daily. By doing one can burn the fat in the body.

In taking the healthy diet one should avoid the fatty foods and also avoid the salt and added sugars.Sodium is not good for patients with CHF.Because sodium can increase the water content in the body which makes the heart to work harder.Also the high sodium will increase the risk of high blood pressure.So it's easy to maintain a normal weight and also take healthy diet for maintaining a good life which is free from diseases.