Cardiac Rehabilitation is featured in this months Hospital Professional News
An exciting agenda for this year’s conference. To attend – register by emailing info@iacronline.ie
Evidence shows that CARDIAC REHABILITATION BENEFITS patients after a cardiac event or procedure.
Listen to the podcast to find out more! Available at: https://irishheart.ie/support-for-you/its-cardiac-rehab-podcast/
Further information is available at: https://irishheart.ie/support-for-you/heart-support-services/cardiac-rehab-for-all/
Local Cardiac Rehabilitation Services are located in every county – https://iacronline.ie/wp-content/uploads/pdf/2023/2023-IACR-Outpatient-Cardiac-Rehabilitation-Services-Directory.pdf
“Cardiac rehabilitation is all about getting you BETTER than before”. Watch this video with a message from Dr. Aashish Contractor for the #WorldHeartDay World Heart Federation #useheart #knowheart
IACR Conference and AGM will be held on November 10th in the Richmond Education Centre, 1 Brunswick Street, Dublin 1.
This is a great opportunity for Cardiac Rehabilitation professionals to meet and be updated on quality CR care delivery as well as addressing some of the myriad of challenges the changing cardiac population bring to daily practice.
To register – email info@iacronline.ie
Full Programme to Follow – watch this space!
First guidelines on Women-focused Cardiac Rehabilitation.
Women are an under-represented patient group in cardiac rehab, despite great need. Therefore ICCPR embarked on a rigorous process to develop the first clinical practice guideline on women-focused CR.
Therefore ICCPR embarked on a rigorous process to develop the first clinical practice guideline on women-focused CR: Ghisi, G.L.M., Marzolini, S., Price, J., Beckie, T., Mamataz, T.*, Naheed, A., & Grace, S.L. (2022). Women-focused cardiovascular rehabilitation: An International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Clinical Practice Guideline. Canadian Journal of Cardiology; 38:1786-1798. December.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE GUIDELINE
Check out the outcomes of patients in ICRR-participating CR programmes. We measure up! Click here to read the full report.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are among the leading burdens of death and disability globally. This burden is increasing at an alarming rate in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an evidence-based secondary prevention model of care to mitigate this burden. The ICCPR’s Global Audit already establishes that the greatest need for programs is in LMICs.
ICCPR has now developed the first-ever International Cardiac Rehabilitation Registry to support development of programs in LMICs and other low-resource settings. The aim of the registry is to promote cardiac rehabilitation quality to ultimately improve patient outcomes, but also advocacy and research.
With institutional approval, participating programs enter data on patients pre programme, post and annually thereafter, on ~ 30 variables. The many benefits for programmes in participation are shown at the end of the report.
Patients are also considered in the ICRR. The patient voice is presented through the User sub-committee.
Registry-participating patients can receive a lay summary at the end of their programme, which shows their progress and outstanding areas to be addressed.
Opportunity to learn about your patient’s information needs and CR barriers.
Researchers from International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (ICCPR) and York University (Toronto, Canada) are looking for willing Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) programmes / cardiac clinicians globally who will ask their patients to do online surveys. The study utilises 2 surveys.(put this in the box)
The Cardiac Rehabilitation Barriers scale (CRBS), a validated tool assessing barriers to enrolling or fully adhering to a cardiac rehab programme.
The Information Needs in Cardiac Rehabilitation (INCR) validated scale assesses the topics that CR participants identify as most important to them.
Where a participant identifies a barrier or information need, the survey will provide links to resources relevant to this topic.
Recruitment has commenced globally with over 1500 survey responses received from 15 countries, the study will close January 2024. At completion of the study, participating CR sites will receive a summary of the top barriers and information needs identified by participants from their sites. Sites who obtain 50 responses will receive a middle author credit in the final publication.
IACR is affiliated with the ICCPR – https://globalcardiacrehab.com/
If you would like to take part please contact Dr Sherry Grace (sgrace@yorku.ca).