Clinical case #1: left ventricular failure patients often find it hard to breathe. Your job is to explain why.
Make sure to include the following:
1.) What does left ventricular failure due to the hydrostatic pressure in the pulmonary capillaries? Why?
2.) What does left ventricular failure due to the osmotic pressure in the pulmonary capillaries? Why?
3.) Based on #1 and #2, how does left ventricular failure affect the amount of fluid outside the blood vessel
in pulmonary capillaries. Why?
4.) Based on #3, why would someone with left ventricular failure have low oxygen levels in the blood? Be
specific. That is, why (based on physiology and the material covered in lectures 16 and 17) would left
ventricular failure patients struggle to get oxygen into their blood.
5.) Briefly research online for 1 treatment designed to help left ventricular failure patients breathe better
and explain why it works.