Heart Failure Types and Classification

Start with the flashcards

The Systems Pathology: Heart Failure flashcards provide a starting point for studying the terms on this page. They ask what heart failure is, how acute and chronic failure differ, and about classes of heart failure. Use the questions to identify terms you want to review before moving to the maps.

You can return to the flashcards after studying a map. Try answering in your own words, then use the resource to check what you have understood.

Explore the mind maps

Left-Sided Heart Failure covers causes, classification, manifestations and diagnostic studies. Left-Sided CHF presents typical features and a chronic time course. Right-Sided CHF presents typical features and a chronic time course for the right side.

Study the left- and right-sided maps alongside each other. Make a note of the features each map presents, then use those notes when you return to the flashcards. The Right heart failure map also includes connections with left heart failure and lung disorders.

Study hemodynamic subsets

Forester Hemodynamic Subsets and Therapy organizes information into subsets. Its labels include warm and dry, warm and wet, and cold and dry. Use the map to follow how the subsets are organized and to review the terms associated with them.

The page also lists a quiz with an acute and chronic title. After using the flashcards and maps, use the quiz to practice, then return to the resources when you want to review a term.

Use the topic within the unit

Heart Failure Types and Classification is a section of the Heart Failure unit in Internal medicine, pathology and clinical semiology. Use this page to focus on the distinctions and classifications presented in its resources, then return to the unit when you are ready to continue studying.

Choose a map to explore alongside the flashcards.