Multidisciplinary team in cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention, from the assessment to the education: an educational project

Submitted: August 19, 2015
Accepted: August 19, 2015
Published: August 19, 2015
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The authors explain the training project: “Multidisciplinarity in cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention: from the evaluation to the therapeutic educationâ€, the rationale and purpose of a pathway for patients with ischemic heart disease treated in the acute phase with both medical and surgical means, and then placed in a rehabilitation program. The training project was transformed into a learning event for the Region of Sicily and later for the Region of Tuscany that has adopted it, encouraging the spread over the entire region. It highlights the role of the team, which focuses on the patient, converging on it multidisciplinary expertise whose goal is the reintegration of the subjects in their lifecontext, with appropriate evaluation, treatment and changes in lifestyle. From the valuations and declining the specific interventions to each job profile according to the principle of synergy obtained by multi-professional integration. All phases of the training project (assessment, intervention, evaluation) are addressed by each of the professionals (nurse, dietitian, physiotherapist, psychologist) that under the responsibility of the cardiologist realize, within the welfare, a concrete process of therapeutic education from which no one can ignore the “vision†of a global care of the patient.

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da Vico, Letizia, Maddalena Ciompi, Francesca Schininà, Elena Sogaro, Weruska Mannelli, and Sandro Cortini. 2015. “Multidisciplinary Team in Cardiac Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention, from the Assessment to the Education: An Educational Project”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 82 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2014.41.