Cardiac rehabilitation is a comprehensive exercise, education, and behavioral modification program for patients with heart disease. It is designed to control symptoms, improve exercise tolerance, and improve their overall quality of life. Heart attack...

Cardiac nursing is a loose term that includes many sub-specialty areas that relate to patients with problems of the heart and related systems. This includes conditions such as unstable angina, cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, myocardial...

A model that reconceptualizes decreased cardiac output is presented. The model uses the term altered cardiac output because increased cardiac output can also cause problems for the patient. Altered cardiac output is then broken down into specific groups of diagnoses that are amenable to...

'One of the greatest fears is the fear of the unknown and a few words of explanation from a thoughtful nurse are worth much more than sedation from a doctor.' (Campbell and Spence 1983). Kenneth Davidson, a 3M/NATN Award prize winner for 1999,...

Beth Meter is a cardiac nurse who has seen plenty of heart attacks, so when her son complained of sudden crushing chest pain that spread to his arm, she was certain he was having one.Doctors at first didn't believe her. That's because her son had...