Is acute heart failure dangerous?

Written by Wang Li Bing
Intensive Care Medicine Department
Updated on September 20, 2024
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Acute heart failure is very dangerous in clinical practice. It is mainly caused by a sudden decrease in cardiac output, leading to insufficient perfusion in tissues and organs and acute blood stasis syndrome. The main clinical symptoms include severe respiratory distress, often accompanied by restlessness, profuse sweating, frequent coughing with pink frothy sputum, and in severe cases, sudden cardiac and respiratory arrest can occur. After the occurrence of acute heart failure, effective measures should be taken to alleviate symptoms such as respiratory distress. The most effective methods in clinical practice include strengthening the heart, promoting diuresis, and dilating blood vessels.

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What is a good diet for heart failure?

Heart failure is one of the most common complications of various organic heart diseases. After the onset of heart failure, it is necessary to use effective medications to treat the primary disease causing the heart failure. At the same time, methods such as cardiotonics, diuretics, and vasodilators should be used to reduce the burden on the heart as much as possible and correct heart failure in a timely manner. Patients with heart failure should rest, keep calm, and avoid overexertion in daily life. Their diet should primarily consist of low-fat and low-salt foods, and they should abstain from smoking and drinking alcohol. They should avoid spicy foods, pickled foods, and overly salty foods. Eating overly salty foods can increase blood volume, increase the burden on the heart, and worsen heart failure. (The use of medications should be conducted under the guidance of a professional doctor.)

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Heart Failure Drug Therapy

Due to some myocardial diseases that cause damage to the myocardium, or other reasons that increase the heart's load, heart failure may occur. Clinical treatment involves strengthening the heart and promoting diuresis, improving blood vessel function, increasing the heart’s contractility, reducing the heart’s resistance, and decreasing the volume of blood returning to the heart. Through these effective drug treatments, heart failure can be corrected. Patients with heart failure should avoid excessive fatigue and maintain a low-salt diet to prevent increasing the burden on the heart.

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Causes of vomiting in heart failure

Heart failure in clinical practice can be divided into left heart failure, right heart failure, and total heart failure. The symptoms of left heart failure primarily manifest as pulmonary congestion, including varying degrees of dyspnea, cough, coughing up pink frothy sputum, palpitations, fatigue, etc. As for right heart failure, it mainly shows as gastrointestinal congestion, with symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, loss of appetite, etc. Once heart failure symptoms appear, the patient must seek medical attention promptly, actively treat the primary disease, correct the symptoms and signs of heart failure, and then avoid excessive physical activity, infections, and other triggers that could exacerbate heart failure.

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Is acute heart failure dangerous?

Acute heart failure is very dangerous in clinical practice. It is mainly caused by a sudden decrease in cardiac output, leading to insufficient perfusion in tissues and organs and acute blood stasis syndrome. The main clinical symptoms include severe respiratory distress, often accompanied by restlessness, profuse sweating, frequent coughing with pink frothy sputum, and in severe cases, sudden cardiac and respiratory arrest can occur. After the occurrence of acute heart failure, effective measures should be taken to alleviate symptoms such as respiratory distress. The most effective methods in clinical practice include strengthening the heart, promoting diuresis, and dilating blood vessels.

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What is acute heart failure?

Acute heart failure refers to an acute episode or exacerbation of heart failure, presenting as acute cardiac insufficiency or acute decompensation of chronic heart failure. Acute heart failure can be divided into acute left heart failure and acute right heart failure. Diseases that can cause acute left heart failure include acute coronary syndrome, hypertensive emergency, acute severe myocarditis, etc. Diseases that can lead to acute right heart failure include right ventricular infarction, acute massive pulmonary embolism, and so on. Patients with acute heart failure may present with sudden severe breathing difficulties, accompanied by frequent coughing, coughing up pink frothy sputum, etc. In severe cases, patients may exhibit confusion among other symptoms. Treatment should be aggressive to improve prognosis, such as administering oxygen, diuretics, sedation with morphine, vasodilators, etc. Specific treatment plans should be determined by a specialist based on the cause of the acute heart failure. (Specific medication use should be guided by a doctor; do not self-medicate.)