Doctor Warrick
Welcome to Dr Warrick's Podcast Channel. Warrick is a practising cardiologist and author with a passion for improving care by helping patients understand their heart health through education work believes educated patients get the best health care to discover and understand the latest approaches and technology in heart care and how this might apply to you or someone you love.
Hi, my name's Dr Warrick Bishop and welcome to my Healthy Heart Minute. Today, a quick word on how we classify cardiac failure, cardiac failure being when your heart's just not working properly.
Well, there are two main ways that we classify cardiac failure. One is based on an individual's symptoms which can range from negligible to some symptom if you do some exercise or symptoms with activities of daily living right through to shortness of breath that rest. We use a New York heart classification for that. We also classify heart failure based on how well the left ventricle or the main pumping chamber of the heart is pumping. Is it pumping so it looks like it's contracting well or is it pumping so it doesn't look like it's contracting well or somewhere in between.
I'll put together a podcast with more detail on that. If you interested, please click on the link below and have a listen. But for now, I'm going to wish you the very best. Take care and bye for now.
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