ALLMedicine™ Cardiac Rehabilitation Center

May 3rd, 2021 - Despite evidence that cardiac rehabilitation (CR) can be effective, the active ingredients or behaviour change techniques (BCTs) constituting effective CR remain unclear. There is also a lack of research surrounding patient and facilitator percept...

May 3rd, 2021 - Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) guidelines advocate weight loss for obese patients but mean weight loss is small. We sought to determine the extent to which obese patients' characteristics prior to CR predict weight loss. An observational, pre- and po...

May 2nd, 2021 - There is limited evidence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attending cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs despite high levels of heart disease. One key enabler for CR attendance is a culturally safe program. This study evaluates imp...

Apr 30th, 2021 - Cardiac rehabilitation is supported by the highest level of scientific evidence. However, less than 25% of those eligible to participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program initiate it; and of these, 50% drop out prematurely. A modified Spanish Ca...

Apr 30th, 2021 - Individual and group cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality by reducing recurrent events, improving risk factors, aiding compliance with drug treatment, and improving quality of life through physical act...

Jun 19th, 2020 - Cardiac rehabilitation programs across Canada have suspended in-person services as a result of large-scale physical distancing recommendations designed to flatten the COVID-19 pandemic curve. Virtual cardiac rehabilitation (VCR) offers an alternat...

Jun 6th, 2019 - Cardiac rehabilitation physicians are faced to an increasing number of heart failure patients supported by left ventricular assist devices (LVAD). Many of these patients have complex medical issues and prolonged hospitalizations and therefore need...

May 17th, 2019 - Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an evidence-based intervention that uses patient education, health behavior modification, and exercise training to improve secondary prevention outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease. CR programs reduce mor...

May 11th, 2019 - Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an evidence-based intervention that uses patient education, health behavior modification, and exercise training to improve secondary prevention outcomes in patients with cardiovascular disease. CR programs reduce mor...

Apr 14th, 2019 - Cardiovascular disease is a competing cause of death in patients with cancer with early-stage disease. This elevated cardiovascular disease risk is thought to derive from both the direct effects of cancer therapies and the accumulation of risk fa...

May 3rd, 2021 - Despite evidence that cardiac rehabilitation (CR) can be effective, the active ingredients or behaviour change techniques (BCTs) constituting effective CR remain unclear. There is also a lack of research surrounding patient and facilitator percept...

May 3rd, 2021 - Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) guidelines advocate weight loss for obese patients but mean weight loss is small. We sought to determine the extent to which obese patients' characteristics prior to CR predict weight loss. An observational, pre- and po...

May 2nd, 2021 - There is limited evidence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people attending cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs despite high levels of heart disease. One key enabler for CR attendance is a culturally safe program. This study evaluates imp...

Apr 30th, 2021 - Cardiac rehabilitation is supported by the highest level of scientific evidence. However, less than 25% of those eligible to participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program initiate it; and of these, 50% drop out prematurely. A modified Spanish Ca...

Apr 30th, 2021 - Individual and group cardiac rehabilitation (CR) programs reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality by reducing recurrent events, improving risk factors, aiding compliance with drug treatment, and improving quality of life through physical act...

Mar 31st, 2021 - What is Cardiac Rehabilitation? Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, secondary prevention program aimed to optimize cardiovascular health. The programs are multifaceted and address psychosocial, physical, and emotiona...

Mar 25th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Before COVID, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) was one of those diseases that many people, including physicians, dismissed. "They ...

Oct 23rd, 2019 - Cardiac rehabilitation is associated with fewer deaths and hospital readmissions in the year after open heart valve surgery, although stark differences in uptake exist along racial and geographic lines, a large Medicare study shows. Cardiac rehab ...

Oct 23rd, 2019 - Cardiac rehabilitation is associated with fewer deaths and hospital readmissions in the year after open heart valve surgery, although stark differences in uptake exist along racial and geographic lines, a large Medicare study shows. Cardiac rehab ...

Oct 23rd, 2019 - Patients fresh out of cardiac valve surgery are no exception to the general underutilization of cardiac rehabilitation in the U.S., according to an observational cohort study. Enrolling in a comprehensive program of supervised exercise, cardiac ri...