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Diploma in Community Health Nursing
Congestive Cardiac Failure: Definition, Epidemiology, Systolic and Diastolic Dysfunction and Their Management
Dr Lewa's notes defining cardiac failure as the inability of the ventricles to fill or eject blood at the rate the body needs. Systolic failure is worked through by ejection fraction, from mild reduction to the very slow fraction under 30 percent and the point at which transplant is considered, and diastolic failure by its underlying causes and the management of fluid retention with diuretics.
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