Question

Provide two community and two in-hospital resources for the individual with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Discuss the role of the resource/service and the benefit for the individual

Identify and describe two types of literature and two professional bodies associated with the primary health care management of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD).

Answer 1

• ST Vincents hospital Heart Health ([email protected]) - The hospital is located in NSW in Australia. It has a facitlity for Inpatients and outpatients. It promotes Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiac Rehabilitation. This hospital in Sydney is recognised for cardiac services including cardiac rehabilitation. Certain procedures are CTCA, Cardiac Electrophysiology services, PCI, Mitral valve replacement, Advanced heart failure management, Cardiac nuclear medicine imaging, Holter and event monitoring, Structural heart disease intervention, Ablation of arrhythmias are some examples
• www.211.ca ( For community resources). It promotes post cardiac surgical care too such as healthy eating, rehabillitation, stress management, Health and social services, counselling and other information of artery diseases
• Smidt Heart Institute for Cardio Vascular Care in the United States.It has 16 centres and programmes to diagnose and treat, heart and valvular diseases. It has facilities for angioplasty, Stunting, Heart ( surgery, failure, Transplantation), Robotic heart surgery, TEVAR, Ventricular Assist Device, Trans- Cathter Closure, Video assisted thoracoscopy are examples. 1800-CEDARS-1 ( available 24 hours). This has a facility for all sorts of diagnostic purposes
• CardioStart International. It is a global volunteer heart care which provides surgical mission internationally. They provide surgeries such as advanced cardica surgery, pacemaker implantations and cardiac surgical techniques
• The Blue Room which supports group of people with heart disease in Australia. www.heartnet.org.au.
• The two professional bodies are American Heart association( ( www.heart.org), Centeres for disease control and prevention.
• A literature which is related to primary prevention of coronary heart disease , guidance from framingham reveals that treating hypertension or lowering serum cholesterol levels in diabetic patients reduces the risk for future CHD just as effectively as controlling hyperglycemia. Cholesterol lowering therapy highlight the urgency of risk factor management in patients with established CHD
• Depression and Coronary heart disease literature reveals that high prevalence of depression in patients with CHD supports a stratergy of increased awareness and screening for depression in patients with CHD. Routine screening for patients with CHD is necessary.
• AHA guidelines states that Cardio vascular diseases are preventable. A data revealed that for women, healthy life styles, desirable weight, no smoking and moderate consumption of alcohol account for 84 % of reduction in Coronary heart disease