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Heart Disease

Recovery Guidelines for Cardiac Events

First 6 Weeks at Home

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Catalog #: HA-39
Duration: 21 minutes
Format(s): VHS videocassette DVD Closed Captioned
Language(s): English

Summary

This practical video gives patients guidelines about bathing and showering, dressing, meal preparation, car rides and driving, lifting, sexual activity, leisure, exercising, and constipation. Specially priced for volume purchases as part of Milner-Fenwick's Home Care Video Series.

Details

This program covers activity guidelines for the first four to six weeks after your release from the hospital following a heart attack or open heart surgery.

Week One Activity Guidelines:

  • get up and get dressed daily
  • bathing
  • showering
  • walking
  • lifing less than 10 pounds
  • no dinner parties or special events
  • short car rides and visits
  • how to take your pulse and why it's important
  • during recovery keep your heart rate during activity within 20 beats of your resting heart rate
  • symptoms of overexertion include: chest discomfort, angina, shortness of breath, faintness, heart palpitations, irregular pulse, excessive sweating, dizziness, nausea, excessive fatigue
  • showering: wait 60-90 mins after eating, exercise or emotional upset; lukewarm water only; support arm when washing above shoulders; follow instructions for incision care; limit to 5-7 minutes; sit to dry off

Week Two Activity Guidelines:

  • light housekeeping: work between shoulder and knee level, no pushing or pulling furniture; no vacuuming
  • light laundry chores
  • grocery shopping: avoid heavy reaching, lifting, pushing, pulling
  • symptoms of depression:
    • loss of appetite
    • problems with sleep
    • not dressing
    • not bathing

Weeks Three - Five Activity Guidelines:

  • visit mall, see a movie, attend religious services
  • begin driving with doctor's okay
  • sexual activity: you are ready if you can climb two flights of stairs without stopping or do your daily activities without difficulty
  • guidelines for sexual activity: wait 60-90 minutes after consuming alcohol, emotional upset or strenuous activity; relax; be with a familiar partner; use comfortable positions

Week Six Activity Guidelines:

  • lift more than ten pounds
  • mopping,scrubbing and vacuuming (one room per day)
  • light gardening
  • light carpentry or car maintenance
  • long car rides
  • light weight fishing
  • golf (putting)
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