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What we end up doing is we get the individuals who unfortunately have had a
cardiac event, be it something maybe a little more minor like stenting to open
up a blood vessel or something a little more dramatic like you know a bypass
surgery where there's a lot of a lot of trauma, let's say, and so in terms of
secondary prevention you know they've already had their
cardiac event so what we are trying to do is rehabilitate them through actual
practical physical activity also through health education on being active for
life, dietary requirements etc. in order to prevent a secondary cardiac event.
So, what does that look like then, somebody has had a cardiac event, they're
discharged, they're sent out to your program? What happens next how often are they coming in?
Sure so if they've had a cardiac event especially in my local
area what would happen is they're they would be put on a waiting list to to see
if they're even first interested in becoming part of a cardiac
rehabilitation program, and if they are then once that waiting list has cleared
so it's usually about a three to four-month waiting list
we would call them and we'd say are you interested in coming in for an
orientation we'd get a group of ten to twelve of them for an orientation and
we'd say look this this is our program here are your requirements and I
explained that in a second and if you are interested fantastic there's there's
really no fee to you if you're not interested then that's fine but you sort
of need to know more or less right away because the waiting list is so long the
government only covers so many spots per year.
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