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The Vital Role of Cardiac Rehabilitation After a Heart Event

MIBHS

If you’ve recently experienced a heart attack, heart surgery, or been diagnosed with heart disease, your doctor has likely recommended cardiac rehabilitation. While cardiac rehab may seem like an added burden during an already challenging time, it plays a crucial role in your recovery and long-term well-being.

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Identifying Barriers and Enablers to Cardiac Rehabilitation Participation and Completion Unique to South Asian Individuals: A Qualitative Systematic Review

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

Abstract Aim South Asian individuals living outside the Indian subcontinent are under-represented in cardiac rehabilitation (CR), despite facing higher rates of cardiac-related mortality and hospitalisations compared to White ethnic groups.

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‘When age is not a barrier’: an explorative study of nonagenarian patients’ experiences of undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

(iii) The post-PCI pathway was multifaceted describes a short stay at the cardiac ward with individual post-procedural experiences, close monitoring, and preparation for discharge including cardiac rehabilitation. Individual cardiac rehabilitation strategies were highlighted after discharge from hospital.

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Rewriting the heart failure pillars toward less burdensome heart failure care pathways

The British Journal of Cardiology

At the Association of Cardiovascular Nursing & Allied Professions conference in June, Professor Tiny Jaarsma called for a pillar of self-care to be added to heart failure (HF) care guidelines. 2 agree that HF care needs an additional pillar and suggest cardiac rehabilitation. 1 Taylor et al.

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Stakeholder perceptions of factors contributing to effective implementation of exercise cardiac telerehabilitation in clinical practice

European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing

We aimed to identify factors that cardiac rehabilitation stakeholders perceived could influence the effectiveness of implementing an evidence-based, real-time remotely monitored cardiac exercise telerehabilitation intervention (REMOTE-CR). years), practitioners ( n = 20, 14 female; 36.6 ± 11.8

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7 Things You Can Do To Reduce Your Risk Even If You Already Have Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Cardiac Rehabilitation. It’s a multidisciplinary approach involving nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, dieticians, psychologists and many others. Those who attend cardiac rehab have 44% fewer major heart events than those who do not complete cardiac rehab 1. This is why cardiac rehabilitation is so important.

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CO-CREATION-HF protocol: clinical trial to evaluate the impact of a comprehensive and hybrid cardiac rehabilitation model on patients with heart failure

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

IntroductionComprehensive, hybrid cardiac rehabilitation (CR) models have been scantly investigated in heart failure (HF) populations, particularly in low-resource settings. 152 HF patients (NYHA class II or III) will be recruited consecutively, and randomly assigned using permuted blocks; allocation will be concealed.