With the improvement of peoples living standards and the acceleration of the aging process of the population, the morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases worldwide are increasing year by year, becoming one of the major public health problems that threaten the health of our population today.
The yearly increasing incidence of cardiovascular disease and the dramatic increase in the number of patients surviving with the disease are great challenges for society and families.
Professor Zheng Yin, Vice President of Hainan Chengmei Hospital and a well-known cardiovascular expert in the province, said: If cardiac surgery is saving the lives of patients during disease episodes, systematic cardiac rehabilitation can help the patients restore their physical and psychological health, improve their quality of life and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease recurrence and death.
At present, Hainan Chengmei Hospital is preparing to build a national standardized cardiac rehabilitation center to provide more guidance and treatment of professional rehabilitation for patients with cardiovascular diseases.
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What is cardiac rehabilitation?
What is cardiac rehabilitation? How to perform cardiac rehabilitation?
Professor Zheng Yin introduced that cardiac rehabilitation is a comprehensive means to change patients poor lifestyle, control cardiovascular risk factors, improve myocardial ischemia and cardiac function, reduce the recurrence rate and mortality of cardiovascular disease, prolong life, improve patients quality of life and help them return to normal social life by using comprehensive interventions such as medicine, exercise, nutrition, psychology (including sleep management), smoking cessation and social support.
Numerous clinical studies have shown that compared to those who do not undergo rehabilitation, cardiovascular disease patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation have a 20% reduction in overall mortality and a 30% reduction in cardiovascular mortality.
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Which patients are suitable for cardiac rehabilitation?
Which patients are suitable for undergoing cardiac rehabilitation?
Professor Zheng Yin said: After cardiac and interventional procedures, patients may feel more comfortable or safer by lying down than undergoing cardiac rehabilitation, but it is not beneficial for heart function recovery and physical rehabilitation. Modern rehabilitation medicine has proven that scientific and rigorous individualized cardiac rehabilitation can help patients return to society, work and life as soon as possible, both psychologically and physically. As long as the patient is not in the acute phase of the disease, under the guidance of a cardiac rehabilitation specialist, most patients with cardiovascular disease are suitable for cardiac rehabilitation to varying degrees, such as: chronic heart failure, post-coronary stenting, post-coronary bypass surgery, ischemic heart disease, peripheral artery disease, high-risk cardiovascular disease not suitable for surgical intervention, end-stage renal disease, and people with limited cardiopulmonary exercise.
In addition, people without cardiovascular disease but with risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as obesity, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, anxious and depressed people and sub-healthy people, can all benefit from cardiac rehabilitation to make their hearts stronger.
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What are the methods of cardiac rehabilitation?
Professor Zheng Yin introduced that cardiac rehabilitation is a systematic and professional comprehensive diagnosis and treatment service. It includes five prescriptions: medicine, psychology, sports, life, nutrition.
Under normal circumstances, rehabilitation experts will carry out a systematic and comprehensive safety assessment for each patient, based on which, they would help the patients develop an individualized rehabilitation treatment plan to promote the recovery of their heart function.
Shu Yue, deputy chief physician of the cardiac rehabilitation clinic of our hospital, said that they will form a multidisciplinary team of nutrition, rehabilitation medicine, psychology and other disciplines to provide patients with a systematic and comprehensive comprehensive treatment plan to help patients overcome the fear of disease, improve their myocardial vitality through exercise, and help patients with chronic heart failure to improve their heart function safely and effectively, reduce the number of hospitalizations due to heart disease, reduce the incidence of cardiac death, and improve the quality of life of patients.
It is obviously that cardiac rehabilitation is a continuation of cardiovascular disease treatment and a beneficial means for patients with heart disease to regain their health.
Professor Zheng Yin reminded that in order to avoid adverse reactions or safety hazards in the rehabilitation process, patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation must gradually carry out rehabilitation exercises and gradually improve their cardiopulmonary function under the guidance of professional doctors.
Introduction of the expert
Professor Zheng Yin, specialist in cardiovascular disease and geriatrics, is currently vice President of Hainan Cancer Hospital and Vice President of Hainan Chengmei Hospital.
Medical specialty: Has been engaged in the clinical work, scientific research, prevention and health care of cardiovascular medicine and senile diseases for over the past 35 years. She has profound attainments in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and health management of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and senile diseases.
Text from Huang Fei