Cardiac Rehabilitation Flashcards
What are the key features of the BACPR cardiac rehabiliation definition?
1 - cause of CVD needs to be addressed
2 - preserve or resume optimal function
3 - slow or reverse progression of CVD
What is the core component of rehabilitation?
- structured exercise education
What is the peripheral component of rehabilitation?
- psychological support
- social support
- lifestyle advice
- risk factor management
Which core patients should be signed up for cardiac rehabilitation?
- post myocardial infarction
- coronary artery bypass graft
- coronary stents
- chronic heart failure
What are the 3 main aims that cardiac rehabilitation aim to reduce?
1 - death
2- MI
3 - rehospitalisation
Does rehabilitation cause better health outcomes?
- cannot say that
- rehabilitation is associated with better health outcomes
What is the problem with observational data, instead of doing prospective randomised trials?
- patients self select
- causes patient bias
- more motivated patients attend so outcomes will be better
Following cardiac rehabilitation what is the target for total cholesterol and LDL?
- total cholesterol = <4mmol/L
- LDL = <2mmol/L
In patients who attend cardiac rehabilitation, are they more or less likley to be compliant with medication and lifestyle change?
- more compliant with everything
Following cardiac rehabilitation what is the target for blood pressure?
- <140/90 mmHg
In patients who have diabetes and attend cardiac rehabilitation, what are some of the improvements that have been observed?
- improved glucose tolerance
- reduced serum insulin
- reduced triglycerides
- reduced body fat
- improved compliance
According to the British Association for Cardiac Prevention and Rehabilitation what are the 6 core components of cardiac rehabilitation?
1 - health behaviour with education
2 - lifestyle management (exercise)
3 - psychosocial health
4 - medical risk management
5 - long term straegies
6 - audit and evaluation
What is phase 1 of cardiac rehabilitation programme that occurs in the 1st week?
- patient assessed in hospital (pre-discharge)
- educate misconceptions and questions
- mobilise
- individual exercise programme (4-6 weeks)
What is phase 2 of cardiac rehabilitation programme that occurs in weeks 2-6 at patients home?
- personalised exercise programme
- education and stress management
- 5-30 minutes of activity around house
- telephone contact with rehab team
Phase 3 is generally the phase that is classed as a cardiac rehabilitation programme. In phase 3 of the cardiac rehabilitation programme, what occurs in weeks 6 to 9 months in the community setting?
- assessment of exercise programme
- personalised multi modality exercises
- health education
- psycho socia support
Which phase is most commonly referred to as the phase where cardiac rehabilitation programme occurs?
- phase 3
What are the 4 sections of a structured exercise programme?
- warm up
- aerobic exercise
- resistance exercise
- cool down
When designing a structured exercise programme for patients, how is the intensity of the programme judged?
- Borg scale
- aim for level 4-6
Why is weight management important in CVD?
- increases risk of all mortalities
- waist circumference is 94 (men) and 80 (women)
- BMI target is 25-30kg/m2
Is it important to encourage patients with CVD to quit smoking?
- yes most important factor in patients with CVD
- smoking increases mortality
As part of the nutrition aim for patients with CVD, what is the calorie intake target and what micro nutrient are they advised to increase more of?
- 2000 - 2500 caloires/day
- increase dietary fibre (>20g/day)
What are the 3 common pyschological distress factors that are common?
- anger
- depression
- anxiety
What is phase 4 of a cardiac rehabilitation programme?
- life long maintenance
- unsupervised exercise 2.5 hours/week
- exercise at 60-70% HR max
What are attendance figures (% wise) to cardiac rehabilitation programmes for:
- all patients who are eligible
- CABG
- Myocardial infarctions and stable coronary artery disease
- Heart failure
- only 50% of eligible patients attend
- CABG = 70% attendance
- MIs and stable coronary artery disease = 30%
- Heart failure = very low
What main reasons do patients cite as the reason they dont attend cardiac rehabilitation programmes?
- service organisation
- delivery of service
What is the NHS target for attendance for all those who are eligible for cardiac rehabilitation programmes?
- 85%
There are 4 main reasons patient have identified that contribute to the poor organisational aspects of cardiac rehabilitation, what are they?
1 - co-morbidities (terminal cancer so pointless)
2 - too ill to take part
3 - apathy (patients cannot be bothered)
4 - lack of home support
What are some potential avenues of how cardiac rehabilitation could be improved?
- offer home delivery
- offer programmes online
- multi-modality exercise programmes
What is a clinical audit?
- quality improvement process
What are key performance indicators?
- markers for measuring success
According to the British Heart Association how many staff should be part of the multidisciplinary team delivering the cardiac rehabilitation programme?
- _>_3
According to the British Heart Association who should be included in cardiac rehabilitation programmes?
- all priority groups
- posy MI
- post CABG
- stable ischaemia
- heart failure
According to the British Heart Association how long should the phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation programme last?
- _>_8 weeks
According to the British Heart Association how long should it be before the phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation programme starts in ischaemic heart disease patients?
- 33 days
According to the British Heart Association how long should it be before the phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation programme starts in CABG patients?
- 46 days
According to the British Heart Association where should the initial cardiac rehabilitation programme be undertaken?
- in hospital
According to the British Heart Association following the phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation programme, what should be done after this?
- final assessment
Are key performance indicators being delivered equally as effectivley all over the country?
- no
- deprivation may be an issue
