Symptom Finder - Congestive Heart Failure
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
You have just sat down for dinner when you receive a call from an old patient of yours. The man asks if you could “call in” an antibiotic for a
“cold” he has had for a week, which is not clearing up. You can tell he is short of breath on the phone, so you decide to make a house call. When
you arrive at his home, you note that he is very short of breath and is coughing up frothy, blood-tinged sputum. On examination, he has bilateral
crepitant rales, jugular venous distension, and 4+ pitting edema. You diagnose congestive heart failure and arrange for immediate
hospitalization. What else should you look for?
1. Pulmonary embolism
2. Bronchopneumonia
3. Hyperthyroidism
4. Hypothyroidism
5. Beriberi heart disease
6. Acute myocardial infarction
7. Acute respiratory distress syndrome
8. Cardiomyopathy
9. Cardiac arrhythmia
10. Rheumatic heart disease
11. COPD
You have just sat down for dinner when you receive a call from an old patient of yours. The man asks if you could “call in” an antibiotic for a
“cold” he has had for a week, which is not clearing up. You can tell he is short of breath on the phone, so you decide to make a house call. When
you arrive at his home, you note that he is very short of breath and is coughing up frothy, blood-tinged sputum. On examination, he has bilateral
crepitant rales, jugular venous distension, and 4+ pitting edema. You diagnose congestive heart failure and arrange for immediate
hospitalization. What else should you look for?
1. Pulmonary embolism
2. Bronchopneumonia
3. Hyperthyroidism
4. Hypothyroidism
5. Beriberi heart disease
6. Acute myocardial infarction
7. Acute respiratory distress syndrome
8. Cardiomyopathy
9. Cardiac arrhythmia
10. Rheumatic heart disease
11. COPD