Excessive salt intake due to ignorance or noncompliance with salt restriction, other noncardiac illnesses, and the use of inappropriate drugs are the most common causes of CHF aggravation.
How To Remember The Congestive Heart Failure Causes of Exacerbation ?
Congestive Heart Failure Causes of Exacerbation
- Forgot medication
- Arrhythmia/ Anaemia
- Ischemia/ Infarction/ Infection
- Lifestyle: taken too much salt
- Upregulation of CO: pregnancy, hyperthyroidism
- Renal failure
- Embolism: pulmonary
Mnemonic: “FAILURE“
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