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Disease Management is a system of
coordinated healthcare interventions and
communications for people with conditions in which
patient self-care efforts play a significant role
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Healthy Heart Programme |
WHO reports indicate that the
number of people with
cardiac ailments in our country is growing
alarmingly. If unchecked, 50% of the world’s cardiac
cases will be from India by the year 2012. Changing
lifestyles, high stress and sedentary work culture
among the major contributors to emerging trends. However 50% of death & disability from
Cardiovascular Diseases can be reduced by a
combination of simple, effective efforts to reduce
major CVD risk factors.
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The hurdles that exist in the long term management of heart disease are:
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- Poor understanding by patient of disease, risk factors and consequences of inadequate management
- Poor compliance to medication and therapeutic lifestyle changes
- Urgency given precedence over long term severity
- Challenges in providing coordinated treatment
- Monitoring difficult with patients lost to follow up
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These can be successfully countered by the Heart disease
management programme launched by the Apollo
hospitals.
The programme is appropriate for
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- Patients desirous of evaluation of cardiac status
- Patients with Hypertension
- Patients with Dyslipidemia
- Patients with other risk factors and family history of heart disease
- Patients with Chronic Stable Angina
- Post rehabilitation in patients with Ischemic Heart Disease
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The package includes-
- Detailed case history
- Evaluation by Cardiologist
- Lab Investigations
- Review By Cardiologist followed by
- Drug advice
- Diet advice
- Physical exercise advice
- Counselling
- Preventive measures
- Home visit
- Home monitoring of BP
- Discounts on medication
- Follow up calls
- Emergency ambulance services
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