PUBHLTH 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Smoking Cessation, Diac, Internal Medicine
28 Feb 2017
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Chapter 17: cardiac rehab for the elderly: a public hea. Services that are composed of multidisciplinary teams that work to limit the physiologic and psychological effects of cardiac illness. Contemporary cardiac rehabilitation services are comprehensive long term programs that involve medical evaluation, exercise, cardiac risk factor medication, education, and counseling. Programs are designed to limit the psychological effects of cardiac illness, reduce risk for death, control symptoms, stabilize or reverse the atherosclerotic process. Elderly represents a large proportion of those in cardiac rehab. Cardiac rehab programs have a short history in american medicine and physicians training in internal medicine receive very little info on it. Referrals to cardiac rehab programs have been approved as a quality measure by the national quality forum. Medicare regulations provide payment for up to 36 cardiac rehab sessions. Problems occur in analyzing if cardiac rehab is effective and appropriate to prescribe for the elderly.
