Acute Depressive Episode
- Heart Attack and Acute Coronary Syndrome - Rehabilitation
- Highlights
- Introduction
- Risk Factors
- Prognosis
- Symptoms
- Diagnosis
Rehabilitation
Physical Rehabilitation
Physical rehabilitation is extremely important after a heart attack. Patients with recent episodes of acute coronary syndrome also generally need some sort of supervised exercise training. Rehabilitation may include:
- Leg exercises may start as early as the first day. The patient usually sits in a chair on the second day, and begins to walk on the second or third day.
- Most patients undergo low-level exercise tolerance tests early in their recovery.
- After 8 - 12...
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