Death symptoms of 90 year old patients with heart failure?

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Heart failure is a clinical syndrome caused by ventricular dysfunction. Usually, the damage comes from systolic dysfunction. So heart failure is mainly caused by decreased cardiac output. In this case, the main clinical manifestations of reduced ventricular ejection volume are a large, dilated heart and reduced ejection fraction, death symptoms of heart failure in 90 year old people? Next, I'd like to share my views with you.

Death symptoms of 90 year old patients with heart failure?

First: physical decline, fatigue and weakness: they are the symptoms of almost all patients with heart failure. The most common causes are dyspnea after lung blood stasis, and the abnormal increase of cardiac output after exercise, which leads to insufficient perfusion of tissues and organs. The elderly may have mental symptoms such as blurred consciousness, memory loss, anxiety, insomnia and hallucination. The arterial pressure is generally normal, but the pulse pressure decreases.

Second: most heart failure patients will have chest tightness before they die. If this phenomenon is not found in time, it will directly lead to death. Or sudden severe dyspnea; Breathing rate of 30 ~ 40 times / min, sitting upright breathing, pale complexion, cyanosis, extreme irritability, sweating and frequent cough.

Third: cough, expectoration and hemoptysis: cough is an early symptom, often occurs at night, cough can be reduced or stopped when sitting or standing. Sputum is usually serous, white foam, sometimes sputum with blood, such as pulmonary capillary pressure is high, or when pulmonary edema, plasma extravasation into human alveoli, can have pink foam like sputum.

matters needing attention

(1) Full rest: elderly patients with acute heart failure must not walk, can rest in bed, chair, but should be encouraged to move in bed, so as to avoid bedsore and venous thrombosis（ 2) Reasonable diet: reduce calorie and fat intake, increase fruits and vegetables.