Supervised Moderate Intensity Exercise Improves Distance Walked at Hospital Discharge Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery-A Randomised Controlled Trial

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 129-138

  Hirschhorn, Andrew D ^a,b   Richards, David ^a   Mungovan, Sean F ^a   Morris, Norman R ^b   Adams, Lewis ^b  

^a Ramsay Health Care Westmead Private Hospital   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac rehabilitation; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Exercise; Physiotherapy; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING EXERCISE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DUODENAL ULCER BLEEDING; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART REHABILITATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINESIOTHERAPY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAL CAPACITY; WALKING;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; VITAL CAPACITY; WALKING;

EID: 40749122012     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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