Abstract:Background: Heart decompensation is a heart failure exacerbation caused by the body’s decompensated mechanism. Uncontrolled hypertension is one of the risk factors for heart decompensation that worse the decompensated mechanism in the presence of target organ damage (TOD). Patient with heart decompensation also suffers dyspnea, ortopnea, and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea (PND).Objective: To describe the management of breathing problem in patient with heart decompensation in emergency department (ED).Case: A 39-… Show more
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