Reading a book from 2015 and it references 'uncompensated' heart failure, but can't find any info in my Med-surg text about it. My text only has compensated and decompensated.So my question is:Is uncompensated heart failure the same as decompensated? (just changed/updated terminology but still the same thing?)
nursej22, MSN, RN 2,972 Posts Specializes in Public Health, TB. Has 38 years experience. Aug 31, 2019 Yes, they are the same. However, decompensated sounds like the patient was compensated at one time, and deteriorated, while the uncompensated may have never have been treated. Either way, you would approach treatment the same way.
murseman24, MSN, CRNA 316 Posts Specializes in anesthesiology. Sep 9, 2019 Is this referring to HF with preserved EF (diastolic HF) and reduced EF (systolic HF)?
