Heart failure disease in medical terms is called the “Heart Failure or Cardiac Failure”, is a medical emergency in which the amount of blood pumped by the heart of one every minute cardiac output are not able to meet the needs of normal metabolism.

The impact of rapid heart failure affects the blood supply shortage, thus causing cell death due to lack of oxygen carried in the blood yand itself. Suplay lack of oxygen to the brain (Cerebral Hypoxia), causes a person to lose consciousness and stop breathing suddenly leading to death.

Congestive heart failure in infants and children is an emergency that is frequently encountered by health workers wherever located. Complaints and symptoms vary widely and often difficult to distinguish from other diseases outside the heart.

Conditions of heart failure disease does not mean that the heart stops working (cardiac arrest), but the heart is no longer able to pump blood as day-to-day tasks for a person’s body.

# Classification of Heart Failure Disease

The heart space is divided into four rooms and the porch Porch left-right separated by a septum intratrial, then room right and left chambers are separated by the interventricular septum.

Heart failure can occur on one side of the heart, such as heart failure or left side of heart failure only the right hand column.

# Cause Heart Failure Disease

Heart failure can be caused by primary disorders of the heart muscle itself or excessive heart weight or a combination of both. In general, possible factors that cause disease in heart failure are those who have hipertenisi disease, hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), smoking, diabetes mellitus (diabetes), obesity (overweight) and someone who has a family history of heart disease and life course patterns an irregular and less to sports.

# Signs and Symptoms of Heart Failure Disease

Signs and symptoms of heart failure can be distinguished based on which part of the heart’s impaired pumping of blood, more details as follows:

1. Left heart failure; cause collection of fluid in the lungs (pulmonary edema), which causes shortness of breath are great. Shortness of breath, initially only felt when someone did the activity, but in line with the deterioration of the disease is shortness of breath will also arise when patients do not do the activity. While other marks are quickly tired (fatigue), anxiety / worry (anxity), rapid heartbeat (tachycardia), cough and heart rhythm degub irregular (arrhythmia).

2. While the right of heart failure; tends to result in the collection of blood that flows to the right of heart. So this causes swelling in the feet, ankles, legs, abdomen (ascites) and liver (hepatomegaly). Other signs are nausea, vomiting, fatigue, rapid heartbeat, and frequent urination (urine) at night (Nocturia).

# Diagnosis of Heart Failure Disease

Usually, the diagnosis is established based on the signs and symptoms complained of or that looked directly at examination. To strengthen the diagnosis, the doctor will perform various checks, for example;

1. Physical examination, the existence of a weak pulse and rapid, reducing blood pressure, abnormal heart sounds, enlarged heart, swollen neck veins, fluid in the lungs, liver enlargement, weight gain fast, swelling of the abdomen or legs.
2. X-ray examination or X-ray (X-ray), in the chest may reveal enlargement of the heart and fluid collection in the lungs.
3. Examination Echocardiography (using sound waves to describe the heart) and electrocardiography (assessing the electrical activity of the heart).

# Failed Heart Disease Treatment

In the management or treatment of patients with heart failure cases of the disease, there are three basic things that a reference, among others; treatment of heart failure itself, treatment of underlying diseases and treatment of trigger factors.
Included in the medical treatment to reduce fluid and salt retention, improve contractility and reduce the burden on the heart. While in general handling includes rest, setting the temperature and humidity, oxygen, fluids and diet.

Provision of drugs, such as inotropes drugs (digitalis, inotropes drugs intravenously), vasodilator drugs (arteriolar dilators: hidralazin), venodilator (nitrate, nitroglycerin), mixed dilators (prazosin, captopril, nitroprusid), diuretics and drugs dysrhythmias.

Surgical intervention, this is usually done to cope with congenital heart disease (palliative, corrective) and acquired heart disease (valvuloplasti, valve replacement).

# Prevention of heart failure

For those of you who feel the signs and symptoms as mentioned above, should immediately memeriksaakan a doctor. Reduce factors that can cause heart failure conditions, stop smoking, reduce the consumption of fatty foods, try exercise, patterns or danger of life regularly.

Of course for those who suffered or suffer from diseases that could result in attacks cause heart failure should routinely to a doctor, such as high blood patients (Hypertension), diabetes (Diabetes), buildup of plaque (cholesterol or other) on the cardiovascular