Chamberlain College of Nursing - NR 601NR601 Week 2 Discussion HTN-ACC-AHA Guidelines

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Dr. Burks and class, According to the ACC/AHA Guidelines, what is BJ's heart failure stage? Include the pertinent positives (the signs and symptoms AND the objective data) to support this finding. ... Cite your reference. BJ’s heart failure is at stage C. According to the ACC/AHA Guidelines, stages A and B are patients at risk for heart failure. Patients who have either stage C or D heart failure will have new onset dyspnea (Yancy et al., 2017). According to Fang et al. (2015), patients with stage D or advanced heart failure will exemplify symptoms, such as 2 or more hospitalizations or emergency department visits in the past year, progressive deterioration of renal function, weight loss due to cardiac cachexia, inability to walk 1 block on level ground without fatigue, a declination of serum sodium to less than 133 mEq/L, etc. Stage C is chosen because the patient’s According to the ACC/AHA Guidelines, what medications should BJ be prescribed? Include the drug class and rationale statement for each medication listed. Cite your reference for each medication. Before treating heart failure, the provider needs to diagnose heart failure in which the patient has a BNP of 682 pg/nl and an ejection fraction of 39%. The first step to tr [Show More]

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