How to Start Rehabilitation Setting for Cardiac Cases

Abstract

: Cardiac rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary program of exercise program, education, risk factor modification, and psychosocial counseling that reduces mortality and hospital stay, improves quality of life in patients with heart disease. Cardiac rehabilitation program is important for management of heart disease. The programs demands a multidisciplinary approach based on the premise that decisions on the goals of treatment should be made by the insight of several professions, therefore the practitioner requirements for cardiac rehabilitation should have competencies across various disciplines such as medicine, nursing, exercise physiology, physical and occupational therapy, psychology, sociology, pharmacology, and education. Standard facilities also required by hospitals to provide an ideal setting of cardiac rehabilitation.