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