Why the study?
Does cardiac rehabilitation safely improve exercise capacity in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest due to acute myocardial infarction?
Population
23 subjects with acute myocardial infarction, including 8 resuscitated from cardiac arrest and 15 without…
Comparison
Cardiac rehabilitation for 6 weeks. vs Patients without history of cardiac arrest…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
6 weeks
Authors
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May support cardiac rehabilitation for exercise capacity in resuscitated MI arrest patients; hypothesis-generating, RCTs needed before practice change.
Does cardiac rehabilitation safely improve exercise capacity in patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest due to acute myocardial infarction?
Cardiac rehabilitation is safe and effectively improves exercise capacity in high-risk patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest following acute myocardial infarction.
Kim et al. (2014) studied this question.
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