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Congestive Heart Failure & Pulmonary Edema by Lovely Cacapit is a document available to read on EtoBox.
1) Heart failure can result from myocardial ischemia after a myocardial infarction, which weakens the cardiac muscle and decreases cardiac output. 2) The decreased cardiac output triggers increased systemic vascular resistance and afterload, causing fluids to back up in the lungs and cause pulmonary edema. 3) In congestive heart failure with acute pulmonary edema, this will be a terminal event if systemic vascular resistance is not promptly reversed.
- Author
- Lovely Cacapit
- Language
- EN