Cardiac rehabilitation

Ischaemic or coronary heart disease is the first cause of death in Spain (33%) and mostly affects males between the ages of 40 and 65. In the workplace, the cardiovascular disease is the second highest cause of fatal work-related accidents in Spain.

The cardiac rehabilitation improvement the prediction of sick people coronary and is associated to a reduction in mortality for ischaemic heart disease of 20-30%.

Who can be included in this programme?

Concerned individuals for cardiopathies: after angioplasty +/- STENT due to angina, post AMI, post heart surgery (coronary-bypass, valvular, transplants, and other things) and with controlled heart failure.

How is the risk assessed and controlled?

We grade the risk and carry out a cardiology assessment with effort/rest miocardial SPECT together with musculoskeletal, nutritional and psychological evaluation aimed at preventing possible complications during exercise.

A multidisciplinary group of specialists

• Staff of cardiólogía: it carries out the stratification of risk of the/patients and it leads the team to reply to any enquiry and incidence.
• Medical equipment clinician: it organises all the process and it sees to speeches of health education, control of the risk factors and biopychosocial assessment.
• Staff of physiotherapy: it coordinates customised physical exercises for each case.
• Staff médico rehabilitative: person responsible for to design the table of exercises.
• Team of nursing: it carries out the control and health education of the treated person.

PHASE I (Acute)

Is initiated with the deposit hospitalario.Favorece the precocious mobility of the/patients.

Informa, educates and offers psychological support so much to the hard-working person treated as to its family environment.

PHASE II

Is initiated four weeks later of the hospitable registration. An assessment is made cardiológica and se estratifica the risk to analyse the skills of exercise of the person. A psychological, social and work-based assessment is also made.

PHASE III

In this non surveiled phase - that it covers all its life - with support of its primary care medical staff or its specialist, the hard-working person must continue doing exercise programs of the phase II.