Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiovascular rehabilitation is a comprehensive package offered to patients diagnosed with heart disease. It includes components of health education, advice on cardiovascular risk reduction, physical activity and stress management. It reduces mortality, morbidity, unplanned hospital admissions. Now it is recommended intervention due to its improvements in exercise capacity, quality of life and psychological well-being. It is designed to limit the physiological and psychological effects of cardiac illness, reduce the risk for sudden death or re-infarction, control cardiac symptoms, stabilize or reverse the atherosclerotic process, and enhance the psychosocial and vocational status of selected patients. It is effective for patients with cardiovascular diseases such as ischemic heart disease, heart failure, myocardial infarctions, or patients who have undergone cardiovascular interventions such as coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass grafting.