At the event (Photo: VNA)
a medically supervised programme including exercises, should be provided to
patients with for them to recover after surgery, a Japanese
physical therapist has told a training workshop on cadiopulmonary exercise
testing.
helps stabilise, delay
and slow down the progress of arteriosclerosis and the rate of
re-hospitalisation and death among patients with cardiac diseases, Yuguchi
Satoshi of the University of Sciences told the two-day event which
started yesterday at the HCM City Hospital of Rehabilitation and Professional
Diseases.
“It also helps control coronary risk factors,
improve pulmonary function and quality of life, and reduce depression
symptoms.”
Rehabilitation is divided into three phases, the
first one for regaining body function and activities for daily living, the
second one for recovery to return society, and the last to prevent recurrence,
he said.
In the first and second phases patients are
rehabilitated at hospitals, and could be asked to exercise at home in the third
phase, he said.
Dr Dinh Quang Thanh, head of the physical
therapy department at the hospital, told Viet Nam News that
post-surgical cardiac rehabilitation had not been paid much attention in the
country.
The hospital would soon start providing
rehabilitation to patients having heart surgery at the HCM City Heart Institute
and Cho Ray Hospital.
Tran Trung De, deputy head of the hospital, said
cardiac rehabilitation was a new thing and his hospital would provide training
for doctors in the south.
Last March, Major General Nguyen Hong Son, head
of Military Hospital 175 in HCM City’s Go Vap district, had said the hospital
was setting up a ward to provide rehabilitation as well as further treatment
post-surgery for heart patients.
The ward would open in the second quarter this
year, he said.
The Vietnam National Heart Association has
forecast that one fifth of the population will suffer from heart diseases and
hypertension this year.-VNA
Source: VietnamPlus
