Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention

The Northern Alberta Cardiac Rehabilitation Program is situated at two sites: the Jim Pattison Centre for Heart Health (JPCHH) and Glenrose Hospital. The program has offered comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation services for the last 25 years for the Edmonton zone. Since inception, the program has been providing care to patients from Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Northern British Columbia, Yukon, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. The Jim Pattison Centre for Heart Health opened in Feb 2013 and is located in the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute.

The Northern Alberta Cardiac Rehabilitation provides specialized, interdisciplinary cardiac rehabilitation for ambulatory outpatients. The Program is designed to assist patients to regain and/or maintain their functional capacity in order to achieve optimal well-being; educate patients and support person(s) about cardiac disease and rehabilitation; and assist patients to understand their responsibility for modifying risk factors; and to enhance the patient's psychosocial and vocational status.

Cardiac Rehabilitation is multidisciplinary i.e. it includes medicine, nursing, pharmacy, exercise physiology, occupational therapy, social work and dietetics. Unique features include the Telehealth option for those patients unable to attend the hospital based program. Secondary prevention services, including lipid and hypertension management, are provided to the "traditional" patient populations, such as those with coronary artery disease including patients after coronary artery bypass or valvular surgery, peripheral vascular disease, and heart failure.

At the JPCHH several, "less traditional" patient populations are seen such as those after the implantation of a transcatheter aortic heart valve (TAVI), ventricular assist device (VAD), adult patients living with congenital heart disease, patients post heart transplantation, patients who underwent therapy for malignant diseases and may have had cardiac side effects, and patients with arrhythmias. Experience can be acquired with diagnostic studies in cardiac rehabilitation, primary and secondary prevention strategies, and cardiopulmonary stress testing. There are research and teaching opportunities available to the successful candidate. Currently, there are about 10 ongoing research projects including many on the above-mentioned patient populations, two trials study methods of remote delivery of cardiac rehabilitation and several studies that analyze our database.

We offer a one year Subspecialty Clinical Fellowship in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention.

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