Proper cardiac rehabilitation, including physical exercise, by 13% reduces the risk of death due to cardiovascular diseases. Doctors postulate to popularize it in the outpatient system.
The optimal model of rehabilitation and secondary prevention will be one of the main topics of the XNUMXth Scientific and Training Symposium of the Cardiac Rehabilitation and Physiology of Effort Section of the Polish Cardiac Society, co-organized by the Silesian Center for Rehabilitation and Prevention in Ustroń. The symposium will take place in Ustroń from Thursday to Saturday.
According to the director of the Silesian Center for Rehabilitation and Prevention, Dr. Zbigniew Eysymontt, in-hospital mortality in the course of myocardial infarction in Poland is one of the lowest in OECD countries. However, 15 percent die within one year of the heart attack. sick. Among the causes, doctors indicate the natural course of the disease, comorbidities, inappropriate lifestyle, interruption or irregular use of pharmacotherapy. This is largely due to the lack of access to cardiac rehabilitation programs.
We have so many places in rehabilitation hospitals that we can rehabilitate all patients who have been operated on, but there are still patients after heart attacks. After cardiological treatment, the so-called ballooning, they quickly return to normal life, but their rehabilitation and education is necessary, preferably outpatient. We have such places in Poland, unfortunately, far too few – said Dr. Eysymontt.
As he emphasized, outpatient rehabilitation is cheaper than inpatient rehabilitation. It has advantages for a specific group of patients – those who are more active and have communication capabilities. This model is easiest to implement in large cities, he added.
The symposium in Ustroń will also include workshops for doctors led by a sexologist, during which they will learn how to talk to patients after heart attacks and heart operations about their sex life.
It would seem that doctors have no problem talking to patients about the most intimate things, but firstly – they have, secondly – the patient himself or his family. You have to be able to do it in such a way that it brings benefits, and not traumatize – said Dr. Eysymontt. (PAP)