Heart failure doesn’t mean the heart suddenly stops🫀

Ajouté : 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]Your heart is basically the body's main water pump. In heart failure, the pump doesn't fully stop. It just gets too weak to keep traffic moving forward. So, fluid starts backing up into the lungs, into the legs, into the tissues.

[00:00:13]That's why patients suddenly feel short of breath or wake up gasping for air.

[00:00:17]As nurses, when we hear crackles in the lungs or see swollen ankles, we're not just seeing fluid. We're seeing a traffic jam caused by a struggling pump.