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Exercise groups are a form of rehabilitation sport that is offered to cardiac patients (e.g. after a heart attack) in long-term rehabilitation. In Germany, the constant presence of a physician is mandatory. In order to meet the increasing demand for heart groups, the present study implements emergency care during the heart group sessions with three alternatives: paramedics, physician-on-call or specially trained instructors. In the present study the investigators compare these alternatives (three experimental conditions) with the conventional way (control condition). Perceived safety, trust, acceptance and organisational feasibility are the main outcomes of the study. The methods used are questionnaires to the participants, instructors, organizers and, if applicable, paramedics. Additionally, partially structured interviews with attending physicians are conducted according to an interview guide.
A retrospective observational study was conducted on a cohort of 213 patients referred to the Cardiac Rehabilitation programme of Santa "Caterina" Hospital ("Girona", Spain) following acute coronary syndrome (ACS). We evaluated the long-term control of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and the occurrence of major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in a 3-year period of follow-up.
The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in extraordinary public health orders of social distancing and self-isolation, leading to widespread disruption and discontinuation of cardiac rehabilitation programmes and other social opportunities for cardiovascular disease (CVD) patients to exercise. In Austria, the government initiated drastic public health measures (national lockdown) on March 16, 2020, leading to closure of all outpatient cardiac rehabilitation facilities and restriction of inpatient rehabilitation to patients with urgent medical indications only. This study aims to explore the impact of COVID-19-related national lockdown and public health restrictions on cardiac rehabilitation patients, with respect to maintenance of physical activity for secondary CVD prevention. The study poses three research questions, which will be addressed in a mixed-methods study with sequential quantitative-qualitative (QUANT-QUAL) design: 1. What was the impact of the COVID-19-related lockdown on patients' physical activity and physical fitness levels? (QUANT stage) 2. What was the patient experience of the closure of group-based cardiac rehabilitation training due to COVID-19 public health restrictions? (QUAL stage) 3. Which insights and learning points may be drawn from patients' experiences during COVID-19 public health restrictions with respect to the provision of home-based digital support for physical activity? (QUAL stage) The study will recruit a cohort of up to 40 cardiac rehabilitation patients from one outpatient cardiac rehabilitation centre in Salzburg, Austria, whose rehabilitation programme was interrupted by COVID-19 public health orders, including "lockdown". Patients will undergo re-assessment of physical fitness in cycle ergometry test and re-assessment of cardiovascular risk profile. This will be compared with patients' most recent available test results from before the COVID-19 lockdown (i.e. prior to mid-March 2020) from patient records. Additionally, patients will take part in a semi-structured qualitative interview in which they will be invited to reflect on their personal experiences during the COVID-19 lockdown and thereafter.
Thoracoscopic ablation is a promising treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation. However, the postoperative rehabilitation is very important to prevent early recurrence of atrial arrhythmia. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of professional cardiac rehabilitation in patients after thoracoscopic ablation.
There are studies showing the superiority of HIIT protocols in patients with CAD in the literature, however there is no consensus on the use of HIIT protocols in CAD patients. In addition, in these studies, the HIIT protocols differ in severity and duration and there is no optimal HIIT protocol. Therefore, this study was planed to investigate of two different HIIT protocols and one MICT protocols, which are more commonly used in patients with CAD in the literature on exercise capacity, quality of life, body composition, physical activity level and fear of movement.
Cardiac Rehabilitation, as art and acting science multiprofessional, is based on the training with exercises that provides the post-infarct patients to satisfactorily re-establish the patient's clinical condition and that improve the functional capacity of these individuals. Evidence shows that aerobic exercise training provides improvements in the endothelial function of this population. However, we do not yet have strong evidence of other modalities of exercise in these parameters in post-infarction patients treated with angioplasty.
Cardiac rehabilitation participants will be enrolled during cardiac rehabilitation and provided an activity tracker to use.
This project aims to determine whether a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation program including supervised exercise training is able to prevent cardiotoxicity during treatment with anthracyclines and / or anti-HER-2 antibodies in women with breast cancer. Participants will be randomly allocated to cardiac rehabilitation (intervention group) or conventional management with physical exercise recommendation (control group).
The primary outcome of the Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) program at St Joseph's Hospital is change in performance on an exercise stress test. Patients complete an exercise stress test when they enter and exit the CR program. An improvement in stress test performance reflects an improvement in physical fitness, but is also associated with better long-term health outcomes (e.g. reducing the chance of having to go back to hospital; lower likelihood of dying). While physical fitness has the strongest impact on stress test performance, other factors can also affect the test result. We expect that informing patients about their baseline stress test result will improve their exit treadmill performance. This intervention may be a simple and cost-effective method of increasing motivation among patients to do their best on the exit test