How Do You Define Multiple Heart Failure?
Heart failure is a condition where the heart is unable to pump a sufficient amount of blood to keep you healthy. This can happen when the heart is too weak to pump strongly enough, or it can happen when the heart is just not able to fill up with blood between pumps. Sometimes, both of these happen at once. “Multiple heart failure” is not a real medical term, but it may be used informally by non-medical personnel to describe different situations. “Multiple heart failure” can be defined in terms of the number of times someone goes to the hospital. About a third of people admitted to the hospital for heart failure are re-admitted within three months, and half of these re-admissions are avoidable, according to the American College of Cardiology’s Washington chapter. Reasons someone might go to the hospital multiple times include failure to take medication as prescribed, failure to change diet as prescribed (especially cutting sodium intake) and failure to stop smoking. Heart failure can be
