Anxiety is a prominent concern for cardiac patients in general and particularly as they participate in cardiac rehabilitation (CR). Patients may come in with premorbid anxiety or adjusting to recent cardiac event or surgery that brought them to CR. Anxiety has been linked to higher rates of mortality, future cardiac events, and can interfere with recovery and self-care behaviors (e.g., sleep, treatment adherence). Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients also present as a unique subset of these patients. Treatment of anxiety in cardiac patients requires a general understanding of both cardiovascular disease process, treatment, and symptom presentation; as well as anxiety process, symptom presentation and treatment. This session will provide a brief review of the literature regarding anxiety in cardiac patients, discuss identification of anxiety in your CR patients, and provide interventions you can use with your CR patients to reduce their anxiety to facilitate recovery
Managing Anxiety in you Cardiac Patients
Presented by: Eva Serber, PhD
Disclosures: None
Anxiety is a prominent concern for cardiac patients in general and particularly as they participate in cardiac rehabilitation (CR). Patients may come in with premorbid anxiety or adjusting to recent cardiac event or surgery that brought them to CR. Anxiety has been linked to higher rates of mortality, future cardiac events, and can interfere with recovery and self-care behaviors (e.g., sleep, treatment adherence). Implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients also present as a unique subset of these patients. Treatment of anxiety in cardiac patients requires a general understanding of both cardiovascular disease process, treatment, and symptom presentation; as well as anxiety process, symptom presentation and treatment. This session will provide a brief review of the literature regarding anxiety in cardiac patients, discuss identification of anxiety in your CR patients, and provide interventions you can use with your CR patients to reduce their anxiety to facilitate recovery.
An application has been made to Creighton University Health Sciences Continuing Education (HSCE) for 1.0 CNE credit hour. This course has been approved for 1.0 AACVPR CE credit hour.
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