Chronic stable angina rehabilitation
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Overview
Cardiac rehabilitation, also called cardiac rehab, is a medically supervised program to help cardiac patients recover quickly and improve their overall well being. The chief goal is to provide help the patients understand their disease and inculcate a regimen to stablize and reduce or even reverse the progression of cardiovascular disease. Overall, this will reduce adverse cardiac events, morbidity and mortality. Cardiac rehab is often divided into phases that involve monitored exercise, counseling, emotional support, and education about lifestyle changes to reduce the risks of heart problems. It also helps reverse limitations experienced by patients who have suffered the adverse patho-physiologic and psychological consequences of cardiac events, thus, also helping patients to return to work early. Traditionally, cardiac rehabilitation has been provided to lower-risk patients who could exercise without getting into trouble. However, rapid evolution in the management of CAD has now changed the demographics of the patients so that even patients with recent revascularization can be candidates for rehabilitation training.
Definition
The U.S. Public Health Service definition of cardiac rehabilitation states that:
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Cardiac rehabilitation services are comprehensive, long-term programs involving medical evaluation, prescribed exercise, cardiac risk factor modification, education and counseling. These programs are designed to limit physiological and psychological effects of cardiac illness, reduce the risk for sudden death or reinfarction, control cardiac symptoms, stabilize or reverse the atherosclerotic process, and enhance the psychosocial and vocational status of selected patients. |
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Who Should go Back to Work?
Patients in Specific Occupations with Chronic Stable Angina
Maintenance of Social Requirements
Pregnancy
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