Cardiac Care
When you are recovering from a cardiac procedure or living with conditions like congestive heart failure or high blood pressure, you may need additional care to get back to doing the things your love.
We Want To Help You Enjoy Life Again By Teaching You About How To Manage Your Condition, Treatment And Medications.
We may be able to help if you have experienced:
- Heart failure (HF)
- Hypertension
- Angina pectoris
- Acute myocardial infarction (MI or AMI)
- Ischemic heart disease
- Cardiomyopathy
- Tachycardia/Atrial fib
- CABG (Coronary Artery Bypass Graft)
- Angioplasty and stent placement
We provide care centered on your needs and abilities. We’re here to help you recover to the fullest extent possible as quickly as your treatment allows.
Our Goal Is To Improve Your Quality Of Life.
Our cardiac care:
- Helps prevent unwanted hospital visits
- Reduces shortness of breath
- Improves your quality of life
- Offers self-management techniques for your condition
- Provides education on your condition and medications so you and your family can be active participants in your care
- Provides coordination between healthcare providers and community services
Our specially trained nurses and therapists help you manage your condition, maintain your ability to do the things you want and remain in your home.
In addition to our comprehensive cardiac care offered in all of our branches, we offer a specialized cardiopulmonary program in some locations.
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The cardiac rehab programs offered at Cosmo Polyclinic can benefit patients who have any of the following symptoms or conditions:
- Acute myocardial infarction
- Coronary-prone individuals
- Valvular heart disease
- Myocardial disease with history of congestive heart failure
- Atherosclerotic heart disease
- Angina pectoris (chest pain)
- An abnormal stress test
- Angioplasty or artherectomy
- Pacemaker or AICD
- Coronary artery bypass surgery
- Heart transplant
At Cosmo Polyclinic, we offer cardiac rehabilitation programs designed to fit your specific needs. Our outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program includes physician-supervised exercise sessions for up to 12 weeks. However, because our programs are designed to help restore and maintain your well-being, we offer a follow-up program to maintain your cardiovascular fitness following the 12-week program.
Patient comfort is of the utmost importance to us at Cosmo Polyclinic, and our physicians ensure that all cardiac testing is done in the least invasive way possible. Most of the cardiac tests we offer are completely pain free and simply require that electrodes are attached to your skin to allow for imaging of the heart. Some of our testing does require drawing blood and in some instances the patient will be put under conscious sedation to minimize discomfort.
Stress is an unavoidable part of daily life, but excessive stress and how you manage stress can have an impact on your cardiac health. Stress can influence blood pressure and cholesterol levels, which increase the risk of heart disease. Additionally, some individuals turn to negative habits such as overeating, smoking cigarettes or excessive alcohol consumption to cope with excessive stress, and these behaviors greatly increase the risk of heart disease.
Some risk factors for cardiopulmonary problems are hereditary and thus out of your control. Children of parents with heart disease are more likely to develop cardiac issues themselves, while certain races are predisposed to heart disease. Men are also at a higher risk of cardiopulmonary problems than women, and those over 65 are much more likely to experience cardiac problems.
There are a variety of factors that can put you at risk for cardiac problems, some of which can be changed. These risk factors include:
- Smoking tobacco High cholesterol
- High blood pressure
- Physical inactivity
- Excess body fat
- Diabetes
The presence of more than one of these factors greatly increases your risk for cardiac problems. Additionally, stress, alcohol consumption and diet are other controllable factors that can raise your chances of experiencing heart-related issues.
