What can be used to treat heart failure?

Acute heart failure symptoms are vicious and urgent, if not rescued in time, often life-threatening. Oxygen inhalation should be given immediately, when conditions permit, oxygen can be passed through 20% ~ 30% ethanol (alcohol) solution before inhalation. Comatose patients, should take the mask pressurized oxygen, with hyperbaric oxygen chamber rescue treatment is more ideal. In the general family, the patient should first be allowed to rest in a sitting or semi-recumbent position, with both feet draped over the side of the bed. If the diagnosis of acute left heart failure can be clearly made, and the patient is accompanied by irritability, a small amount of morphine or dulcolax injection should be prioritized (with caution in the elderly). The choice of rapid cardiotonic drugs (poisonous trichothecenes K or sildenafil), vasodilators (phentolamine, sodium nitroprusside or prazosin, analgesia, etc.), diuretics (tachycardia, sodium diuretic acid, or dihydroketonium, etc.), are all emergency resuscitation measures. For the cause of heart failure (such as hypertension, arrhythmia, etc.), should not be ignored, and the same active treatment should be given. Emergency resuscitation should be based on the local conditions at the time, as far as possible to give emergency treatment. If the condition is slightly stabilized, the patient should be safely transferred to a medical unit with better conditions as far as possible. However, when the condition is unstable, we strive to ask doctors from nearby medical units to come out for treatment.

The treatment of chronic heart failure mainly seeks to reduce the burden on the heart and enhance the working capacity of the heart muscle. There should be good rest conditions in the family, which requires high pillow position or semi-recumbent rest, reasonable diet with treatment. Effective treatment of the causes of chronic heart failure, with rheumatic lesions, to control rheumatic activity; excessive blood pressure fluctuations, to lower blood pressure treatment; hyperthyroidism and anemia patients, but also to have the appropriate treatment. In this way, the therapeutic effect of chronic heart failure can be guaranteed. For specific treatment, cardiotonic drugs, diuretics and vasodilators are usually applied. Digitalis-like drugs, generally using small doses of digoxin oral method, vasodilator drugs, prazosin is often preferred. In addition, it is necessary to actively prevent emotional excitement, exertion, various infections and arrhythmias and other triggers that aggravate heart failure.