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Tag Cardiac failure
CCC Critical Care Compendium 680

Right Ventricular Failure

Right Ventricular Failure: Unrecognised high mortality equal to that of LV failure. Right heart is a low-pressure system, good at dealing with volume (preload) to a point, does poorly with increased afterload (i.e. PH).
CCC Critical Care Compendium 680

Cardiac Failure DDx

In emergency medicine and critical care, the cardiac failure that primarily concerns us is acute heart failure syndrome (AHFS), which refers to rapid worsening of heart failure signs and symptoms, and has many possible causes.