TY - JOUR
T1 - Cardiac Rehabilitation 1992
AU - Kottke, Thomas E.
PY - 1992
Y1 - 1992
N2 - The goal of cardiac rehabilitation is to optimize function through attention to the patient's medical needs, risk factors for recurrent events, physical reconditioning, and psycho-social needs. Medical needs include beta-adrenergic blocking agents and aspirin unless contraindicated, angiotensin converting inhibitors for left ventricular dysfunction, and relief of residual ischemia. Smoking, lipid abnormalities, physical inactivity, and hypertension remain important predictors of reinfarction and death and must be controlled. Obesity must be addressed because it exacerbates these problems. Therefore, the principles of behavior change should be applied to help patients control their risk factors and adopt healthy lifestyles. Smoking cessation and appropriate dietary behaviors can be adopted by the patient while in the hospital. Physical reconditioning can also begin with twice-daily exercises. After discharge from hospital and after an initial submaximal exercise evaluation, the patient will benefit from three sessions per week of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation for six to eight weeks. These sessions should last about an hour and raise the patient's heart rate as much as 30 beats per minute. Along with physical reconditioning, the cardiac rehabilitation program provides an opportunity to address risk factor modification, return to work, return to sexual activity, management of depression and anxiety, and the presence of risk factors in the patient's family. The patient should attend reinforcing sessions every three months for the first year and as necessary after that to control risk factors and reinforce the necessity for physical fitness. (KeioJ Med 41 (3): 123-127, September 1992).
AB - The goal of cardiac rehabilitation is to optimize function through attention to the patient's medical needs, risk factors for recurrent events, physical reconditioning, and psycho-social needs. Medical needs include beta-adrenergic blocking agents and aspirin unless contraindicated, angiotensin converting inhibitors for left ventricular dysfunction, and relief of residual ischemia. Smoking, lipid abnormalities, physical inactivity, and hypertension remain important predictors of reinfarction and death and must be controlled. Obesity must be addressed because it exacerbates these problems. Therefore, the principles of behavior change should be applied to help patients control their risk factors and adopt healthy lifestyles. Smoking cessation and appropriate dietary behaviors can be adopted by the patient while in the hospital. Physical reconditioning can also begin with twice-daily exercises. After discharge from hospital and after an initial submaximal exercise evaluation, the patient will benefit from three sessions per week of outpatient cardiac rehabilitation for six to eight weeks. These sessions should last about an hour and raise the patient's heart rate as much as 30 beats per minute. Along with physical reconditioning, the cardiac rehabilitation program provides an opportunity to address risk factor modification, return to work, return to sexual activity, management of depression and anxiety, and the presence of risk factors in the patient's family. The patient should attend reinforcing sessions every three months for the first year and as necessary after that to control risk factors and reinforce the necessity for physical fitness. (KeioJ Med 41 (3): 123-127, September 1992).
KW - exercise training
KW - risk factors
KW - secondary prevention
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U2 - 10.2302/kjm.41.123
DO - 10.2302/kjm.41.123
M3 - Article
C2 - 1434305
AN - SCOPUS:0026927556
SN - 0022-9717
VL - 41
SP - 123
EP - 127
JO - Keio Journal of Medicine
JF - Keio Journal of Medicine
IS - 3
ER -