2010年5月12日 星期三

physiotherapist working with cardiac patients (1)

yes, physiotherapists do work with cardiac patients
what do they do? exercise....of coz (大家應該估到:)

cardiac rehabilitation contain 4 phases

1. inpatient phase (if patient got a CABG. they will most probably admitted to the ICU)

we basically educate them how to measure their heart rate, what the hell is "borg scale", what is METs (yup, 亞洲人好似無咩興趣呀!) Patients at this stage are actually confined to mobilise until 4 METs.... 咁咩係 4 METs 呢? see below





to be cont'd

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