Cardiac Rehabilitation During Quarantine in COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges for Center-Based Programs

Because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic, many cardiac rehabilitation (CR) services and programs are stopped. Because CR is a class I level A recommendation with clinical benefits that are now well documented, the cessation of CR programs can lead to dramatic consequences in terms of public health. We propose here a viewpoint of significant interest about the sudden need to develop remote home-based CR programs both in clinical research and in clinical care routine. This last decade, the literature on remote home-based CR programs has been increasing, but to date only clinical research experiences have been implemented.
Source: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Special Communication Source Type: research