Suman Badhal

Vardhman Mahavir Medical College
INDIA

Abstract Title: EFFECT OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION IN POST MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION PATIENTS: A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE STUDY

Biography: Dr Suman Badhal has completed her MD in PMR at the age of 29 years from AIIMS New Delhi She is professor at, VMMC and Safdarjung hospital a tertiary care facility in New Delhi in India. She has published more than 26 papers in reputed journals and chapters in the books .She is editor and contributor for three books and has been serving as reviewer of reputed journals for rehabilitation medicine and Chairman of SIG of cardiac rehabilitation in IAPMR .

Research Interest: Cardiac rehabilitation is a multidisciplinary holistic program which is used for improving a patient's physical performance, psychological condition, and quality of life through endurance training and lifestyle modifications. It helps in reducing morbidity and mortality in patients with cardiovascular diseases. It is a four-phase programme in which phase one is for inpatients. Phase two and three are supervised outpatient programme and Phase four is unsupervised home-based exercise programmes. Plenty of literature available for the benefits but, it is underutilized. The present study was conducted to find out the effect of cardiac rehabilitation in patients who survived myocardial infarction. Study is being conducted in the tertiary care centre VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India . It is an interventional cohort study involving 45 MI survivors. A 12 weeks cardiac rehabilitation program was given. Patients were assessed in terms of physical performance ( 6 MWT, Barthel index, and TMT), quality of life (By WHO QoL SF-36) and lipid profile (in terms of TC, HDL, LDL and VLDL) using validated questionnaires and standardized tests. There was a statistically significant difference in the parameters of Six-minute Walk test, Barthel index, lipid profile and in all the eight domains of Short Form -36 as compared to baseline assessment. There is a remarkable improvement in patients in terms of physical performance and quality of life after cardiac rehabilitation