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...

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...