Compensated and decompensated heart failure

This is an amazing video for understanding the concepts of compensation and decompensation of heart failure. This 7-minute video covers 3 ways for compensation and how these compensation methods work. Timeline 0:00 Introduction 0:03 Compensation and decompensation in heart failure 0:31 Ways of compensation 0:44 Activation of parasympathetic system 2:13 Increasing preload 5:12 Muscle’s hypertrophy 6:33 Decompensation