Cardiac Rehabilitation: Participating cardiac rehabilitation program

How does it work?:

Cardiac rehabilitation patients are included at the first outpatient clinic visit with the cardiac rehabilitation nurse after discharge. During cardiac rehabilitation the full team of professionals (cardiologist, cardiac coordinator, physiologists and psychologists) supports the patient in obtaining healthy habits in their lifestyle (from physical activity to eating to sleeping). They receive the Luscii app, a connected blood pressure meter and instruction. Patients will visit the hospital several times for physical exercise and together with the physical therapist they make a personal exercise plan. Based on this plan patients remotely monitor their heart rate - with the Happitech medical device integrated in the Luscii app - during exercise at home and fill out the BORG scale in the Luscii app. This gives the physical therapist insight in the patients progress. With the use of Luscii from the start of the rehabilitation, the support and monitoring is intensified during the sessions but most of all lengthened after the discharge. This way, using Luscii contributes to a higher chance of sustainable behavioural change.