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<td><h1><a name="h1" id="h1"></a> Clinical Practice Guidelines </h1>
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<a name="head1"></a><h2>AHCPR releases cardiac rehabilitation
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guideline</h2>
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<p>Cardiac rehabilitation services—medically supervised
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interventions aimed at limiting physical and other damage from
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heart disease that reduce the risk of death and help patients
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resume a normal life—are widely under-used in spite of their
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proven benefits, according to a newly released Agency for Health
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Care Policy and Research-supported clinical practice guideline.
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Indeed, less than a third of heart patients participate in
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cardiac rehabilitation programs even though potentially all of
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them could benefit from the services, notes Douglas B. Kamerow,
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M.D., M.P.H., AHCPR's director of Clinical Practice Guideline
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Development.</p><p>
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The clinical practice guideline recommends a comprehensive
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approach to cardiac rehabilitation that includes exercise
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training to improve exercise tolerance and stamina and education,
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counseling, and behavioral interventions to assist patients in
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achieving and maintaining optimal health. The guideline also
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recommends considering home-based cardiac rehabilitation, guided
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by a health care professional, as an alternate approach for low-
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or moderate-risk patients who cannot participate in traditional,
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structured group cardiac rehabilitation, which is generally
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conducted in hospitals or other health or community
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facilities.</p>
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<p>An estimated 13.5 million Americans have coronary heart disease,
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including almost 1 million who survive heart attacks each year,
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more than 600,000 annually who undergo coronary artery bypass
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surgery or balloon angioplasty—an invasive procedure used to
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open blocked coronary arteries—and the approximately 2,000
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patients who have heart transplants each year. About half of all
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these patients are elderly. Heart disease patients also include
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about 7 million persons with angina—recurring chest
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pain—and
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4.7 million who have stable heart failure.</p><p>
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According to Nanette K. Wenger, M.D., Co-Chair of the 19-member
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private-sector panel that developed the guideline, and Professor
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of Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine in
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Atlanta, GA, physicians know about cardiac rehabilitation, but
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not enough refer their patients for services. She points out that
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cardiac rehabilitation should be part of the discharge plans for
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all heart disease patients, and even though some doctors
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prescribe individual components of cardiac rehabilitation, such
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as exercise training or education, individual activities by
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themselves are less effective. Dr. Wenger is a cardiologist and
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consultant to the Emory Heart Center and Director of the Cardiac
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Clinics at Grady Memorial Hospital.</p>
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<p>The goals of a well-designed cardiac rehabilitation program are
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to:</p>
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<li>Increase exercise tolerance: The most consistent benefits
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occur when patients exercise three times a week, 20 to 40
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minutes at a time, at 70 to 85 percent of the baseline
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exercise test heart rate. Exercise training should last 12
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weeks or more. The guideline recommends that patients
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continue exercising to maintain the benefits of exercise
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training.</li>
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<li>Improve symptoms: Cardiac rehabilitation decreases anginal
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pain and improves heart failure symptoms, such as shortness
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of breath and fatigue.</li>
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<li>Improve blood fat levels: Nutritional education and
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counseling, behavioral interventions, and exercise training
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improve cholesterol levels. Some patients also may need
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cholesterol-lowering drugs.</li>
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<li>Decrease smoking: As many as 25 percent of patients who
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smoke cigarettes will quit after participating in a smoking
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cessation program as part of cardiac rehabilitation.</li>
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<li>Improve psychosocial well-being and reduce stress:
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Education, counseling, and psychosocial interventions, as
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well as exercise training, improve these outcomes.</li>
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<li>Reduce mortality: Comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation has
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been shown to reduce death rates in patients after heart
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attack by 25 percent.</li>
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<p>Erika Sivarajan Froelicher, R.N., Ph.D., Co-Chair of the panel,
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said heart disease patients should ask for cardiac rehabilitation
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if it is not offered, and they should look for flexibility in a
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program so that they can stick with it. Dr. Froelicher is a
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Professor of Nursing and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the
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University of California, San Francisco.</p>
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<p>The guideline was cosponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and
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Blood Institute and AHCPR and developed under an AHCPR contract
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awarded to the American Association of Cardiovascular and
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Pulmonary Rehabilitation. The panel convened by the association
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included physicians, nurses, exercise physiologists, behavioral
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specialists, dieticians, physical and occupational therapists,
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and consumers.</p>
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