Cardiac rehabilitation information for health professionals
Useful cardiac rehabilitation resources for health professionals.
Key takeaways
- Guidelines
- Standardised program content for Phase II Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Advocacy resources
- Patient information
Guidelines
Clinical information provided by the Australian Cardiovascular Health and Rehabilitation Association (ACRA) on the Heart and Lung Circulation website.Standardised program content for Phase II Cardiac Rehabilitation
The Pathway to Phase II Cardiac Recovery provides a standardised and evidence-based outline of content that should be delivered in phase II cardiac rehabilitation, for people with cardiovascular disease.| A Pathway to Phase II Cardiac Recovery (Full Resource) | Download PDF |
| Module 1: Initial assessment and goal setting | Download PDF |
| Module 2: Heart education and self-management | Download PDF |
| Module 3: Medication education and review | Download PDF |
| Module 4: Managing medical risk factors | Download PDF |
| Module 5: Exercise training | Download PDF |
| Module 6: Healthy eating and weight management | Download PDF |
| Module 7: Tobacco cessation and alcohol reduction | Download PDF |
| Module 8: Psychosocial health Psychosocial well being | Download PDF |
| Module 9: Activities of daily living | Download PDF |
| Module 10: Reassessment and completion | Download PDF |
| A Quick Guide Checklist of the Pathway to Cardiac Recovery | Download PDF |
Advocacy resources
The Advocacy Toolkit has been developed to support health professionals promote improved cardiac rehabilitation and heart failure services in their local area. The Toolkit includes two factsheets outlining the evidence that shows the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation and heart failure services.The Heart Foundation has developed this Toolkit with the support of the Statewide Cardiac Clinical Network and the AMA Queensland.
The Advocacy Toolkit
| Cardiac rehabilitation factsheet | Download PDF |
| Heart failure factsheet | Download PDF |
| ACRA Core Components of Cardiovascular Disease Secondary Prevention and Cardiac Rehabilitation 2014 | Link to |
| Improving the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation in Australia, 2014 (PDF) The Heart Foundation’s cardiac rehabilitation advocacy strategy | Download PDF |
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