Chest tightness, difficulty breathing, edema in both feet... be careful of heart failure (commonly known as heart weakness). A man in his 40s, Mr. Cao, had symptoms such as chest tightness, difficulty breathing, and edema in both feet. After two months of symptoms, he went to the outpatient clinic for medical treatment. He was diagnosed with heart failure. The patient felt worried and desperate for a time. Unexpectedly, he was only 40 years old. It turned out to be heart failure. It is worth noting that the 5-year mortality rate of heart failure can reach 50%, which is more terrifying than many cancers! Early symptoms of heart failure: easy breathing, fatigue, and edema.
High-risk groups for heart failure: family history, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, etc.
Director Wu Yanwen of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yadong Memorial Hospital said that the human heart is like a pump. , pushing blood to the whole body to help the organs function. If the heart does not work enough to meet the needs, heart failure will occur. Although heart failure is more likely to occur in older people, it can occur in young and middle-aged people. People under the age of 55 have about a 4% chance of developing heart failure. In addition to family history, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes are all high-risk groups for heart failure.
Early symptoms of heart failure: easy to breath, tired, edema
In the early stage, patients with heart failure often have easy to breath, tired, edema, and even terminal illness. Problems such as sitting and breathing, but most patients can still move normally when these symptoms occur, so they are not easy to detect or ignore; especially the elderly, often mistakenly think that this is a normal aging phenomenon, causing the condition to worsen before seeking emergency medical treatment, thus delaying the golden time of medical treatment. time.
In addition, although heart failure is a chronic disease, once hospitalized, about 30% of patients will worsen repeatedly and be hospitalized again within 3 months. What is even more frightening is that the mortality rate can reach 50% in 5 years, which is higher than that of many cancers. Even scarier. Heart failure is not only a high-risk disease, but also has a huge impact on the daily routine of patients and caregivers.
Yatung Memorial Hospital established the "Working Together - Heart Care Team" Heart Failure Patients Association
Yatung Memorial Hospital held a lecture on "Speaking Your Heart - Working Together". He also announced the establishment of a new heart failure patient association "Working Together - Heart Protection Team", and invited Huang Xitian, the health education spokesman for heart failure disease, to attend and cover the classic song "Happy Every Day", combining the lyrics with the disease, and the atmosphere of the lecture was HIGH. The highest point is to deepen the singer's impression of disease health education, reproduce the catchy mantra of the "Happy Everyday" program, and also allow patients and their families to have a deeper understanding of heart failure.
Yadong Memorial Hospital officially established the "Heart Failure Center" in 2015. Its cross-disciplinary team care model is a domestic model for heart failure care. In addition to integrating a multi-specialty physician team, the team also includes pharmacists, nutritionists, and pharmacists. Doctors, rehabilitation therapists, social workers, caseworkers, psychologists, clinical specialist nurses, etc., provide comprehensive care through teamwork to reduce the high mortality and rehospitalization rates of heart failure.
Heart failure is not a terminal disease and requires a long-term battle, and family members are always the patient’s most important comrades. Huang Xitian urged that if you find yourself "feeling tired, wheezing, swollen feet, lying unevenly, and coughing non-stop" as in the health education song "Happy Every Day", you must seek medical treatment as soon as possible and cooperate well with the medical team. Only then can you have a strong heart and be happy every day!