Cardiac Rehabilitation

Your doctor may recommend cardiac rehabilitation (rehab) to help
you recover from a heart attack or heart surgery. This is a total
program for heart health that includes exercise training, education
on heart healthy living, and counseling to reduce stress and help you
return to an active life.

Getting involved in a cardiac rehab program is an excellent idea.
A recent study showed that people who participated in cardiac
rehab were 50 percent more likely to survive 3 years after a heart
attack than those who didn’t participate. Cardiac rehab can help to
strengthen your heart, reduce the risks of a future heart attack, and
return you as quickly as possible to your normal daily activities.
Almost everyone with heart disease can benefit from some kind of
cardiac rehabilitation. No one is too old or too young to benefit.
Women are helped by cardiac rehab as much as men are.

Getting Started
Cardiac rehab often begins in the hospital after a heart attack or
heart surgery, with very gentle physical activity and counseling on
adjusting to life at home. Once you leave the hospital, you can
continue to participate in cardiac rehab on an outpatient basis.
Outpatient programs may be located at your hospital, in a medical
center, or in a community facility such as a YMCA. Some people
continue cardiac rehabilitation at home. Regardless of the location,
your cardiac rehab team—which may include doctors, nurses,
exercise specialists, dietitians and counselors—will help you to
create a safe exercise plan, as well as provide information and
encouragement to control your risk factors.

You will need your doctor’s approval to get started in cardiac rehab.
But not all doctors bring up the topic with their heart patients, espe-
cially women. Research indicates that women are only about half as
likely as men to participate in cardiac rehab programs. This is wor-
risome, because nonparticipation increases the risk of having second
and often fatal heart attacks. So be sure to tell your doctor or nurse
that you’re interested in cardiac rehabilitation. Talk with them
about your specific needs and preferences, and ask for a referral that
is a good fit for you.

Getting Tested for Heart Disease

You may be reading this book because you think you might have heart disease but aren’t yet sure. Keep in mind that heart disease doesn’t always announce itself with symptoms. That means you could have heart disease and still feel perfectly fine. The best course is to talk with your doctor about your personal degree of heart disease risk and about whether getting tested is a good idea.

Most screening tests for heart disease are done outside of the body and are painless. After taking a careful medical history and doing a physical examination, your doctor may give you one or more of the following tests:

Electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) makes a graph of the heart’s electrical activity as it beats. This test can show abnormal heartbeats, heart muscle damage, blood flow problems in the coronary arteries, and heart enlargement.

Stress test (or treadmill test or exercise ECG) re c o rds the heart ’s electrical activity during exercise, usually on a treadmill or exercise bike. If you are unable to exercise due to arthritis or another health condition, a stress test can be done without exercise . Instead, you can take a medicine that increases blood flow to the h e a rt muscle and shows whether there are any problems in that flow.

Nuclear scan (or thallium stress test) shows the working of the heart muscle as blood flows through the heart . A small amount of radioactive material is injected into a vein, usually in the arm, and a camera records how much is taken up by the heart muscle.

Echocardiographic changes sound waves into pictures that show the heart’s size, shape, and movement. The sound waves also can be u s e d to see how much blood is pumped out by the heart when it contracts.

Coronary angiography (or angiogram or arteriography) shows an x ray of blood flow problems and blockages in the coronary arteries. A thin, flexible tube called a catheter is threaded through an artery of an arm or leg up into the heart. A dye is then injected into the tube, allowing the heart and blood vessels to be filmed as the heart pumps. The picture is called an angiogram or arteriogram.

Ventriculogram is frequently a part of the x-ray dye test described before. It is used to get a picture of the heart’s main pumping chamber, typically the left ventricle.

Intracoronary ultrasound uses a catheter that measures blood flow. It creates a picture of the coronary arteries that shows the thickness and other features of the artery wall. This lets the doctor see blood flow and any blockages.

In addition, several new, highly sensitive screening tests have been developed. Ask your doctor about these tests:

Carotid doppler ultrasound uses sound waves to detect blockages and narrowing of the carotid artery in the neck, both of which can signal an increased risk for heart attack or stroke.

Electron-beam computed tomography is a superfast scan that provides a snapshot of the calcium buildup in your coronary arteries.

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