Asthma can be of several types and one of them is cardiac asthma.  Patients need to identify and differentiate between acute heart failure and those who have cardiac asthma because both conditions are associated with the wheezing of the chest as a common symptom. The following points describe some important actions:

If these steps are carefully followed a person with cardiac asthma can recover in a reasonable amount of time. Again, falsely identifying an acute heart failure for cardiac asthma can lead to potentially life threatening situations, so a great amount of attention must be given in the identification step.