Сardiac rehabilitation: a cardiologist's opinion

✅ We work with those who want results

🥇We have taken the first patients through the rehabilitation cycle. And among them is a patient who really claims to be a benchmark.

Remember? I wrote about him. He is a military man. He came to us after a myocardial infarction, coronary stent implantation, but with a fantastic thirst for life.

❗️And this was what fundamentally distinguished him from the rest of the patients. He turned out to be insanely disciplined in following the recommendations. This was the first person where the psychologist did not understand what he should do here. Unless he slowed down a little.

🏆Result: + 1 MET in 2 months according to the results of the maximum exercise test, quitting smoking. Believe me, this is very cool. This radically changes the prognosis. Yes, we have not yet established a routine method for measuring maximum oxygen uptake (it would be very accurate). But even using the usual bicycle ergometry allowed us to be convinced of success.

💭What conclusion did we draw for ourselves? In the vast majority of situations, we can really change the prognosis for the quality and duration of life of a cardiology patient, but this is possible only in the case of conscious cooperation. And from here we drew a conclusion for ourselves: we are a very small institution, somewhere even a “chamber”. We do not have the opportunity to take on 100 patients and expect that 1 of them will be conscious. We want to work with the one who wants the result. Therefore, a big request to everyone who does not count on hard work, but does not expect the result - do not bother.

🤝🏻We work exclusively with those who believed in us and accepted the rules of the game.

Author: Gennady Kirzhner, cardiologist.