My mother was 90 years old . We were not aware she had CHF . We thought the subtle issues we were seeing were due to age . One morning she awoke and had difficulty breathing . Her breathing ebbed and flowed for a few days ..Finally she agreed to see a Dr. He did make a house call and said he had belived she had CHF would be back in the morning to do blood work..that she was fine Over night she became worse ...and we called the parametics ..to take her to the hospital . She struggled with the parametic and hospital personel . She was not comfortable and fearful . They would not let me intervene to calm her down . She suffered a massive heart attack and cardio-genic shock . She died . I am having a hard time resolvingh this issue personally . Can you give me some direction . I don't know much about this disorder and wonder if this were handled differently would it have made a difference