Appendices: Case Study for Heart Failure

This case study is from another Open Education Resource “Health Case Studies” by Glynda Rees, Rob Kruger, and Janet Morrison.  The following chapters follow the health journey fictional character Meryl Smith takes from her exacerbation of heart failure followed by her hospital admission.

Although the case study’s pathology is heart failure in general (rather than our chapter on right- vs left-sided heart failure), there are many similarities in the diagnosis and treatment and interactions with health care team.