Effect of Education Using Booklet Media on Low Salt Diet Compliance and Fluid Restriction in Congestive Heart Failure Patients

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE IN CHILDREN: A SURVEY OF 114 PATIENTS

During a period of four years between June, IS, 1988 to June, IS, 1992 one hundred and fourteen patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) were admitted to the pediatric department of Taleghani General Hospital. During the above period, 192 patients with heart disease were hospitalized at this department and CHF was the cause of admission in 59.4% of them. Congenital heart disease (CHO) w...

Precipitating factors of congestive heart failure in admitted patients of Fatemieh Hospital in Semnan, Iran

Introduction: Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a pathophysiologic state in which an abnormality of cardiac function is responsible for the failure of the heart to pump blood at a commensurate rate with the requirements of the metabolizing tissues and/or allows it to do so only from an abnormally elevated diastolic volume. In this study, the prevalence of precipitating factors of CHF in Semna...

Congestive heart failure; variations in electrolyte metabolism with salt restriction and mercurial diuretics.

On the Consideration of Self-Care Behaviors in Patients Affected by Congestive Heart Failure and Factors Related to it

Background and objectives: The current study aimed at considering the performance, attitude and awareness level of patients affected by congestive heart failure who were hospitalized in Zahedan hospitals with regard to the self-care behaviors and factors related to it. Method: This was a cross-sectional study conducted on 140 patients with congestive heart failure who were hospitalized in va...

The effect of body position change on lung compliance in normal subjects and in patients with congestive heart failure.

Since the work of Christie and Meakins (1), the lungs of patients with heart failure have been acknowledged to resist inflation to a greater extent than normal lungs. More recent studies of pulmonary mechanics in patients with congestive heart failure (2-5) have emphasized the lowered lung compliance as well as moderate increases in pulmonary resistance. That acute changes in lung compliance ca...