The aim of this study is to evaluate feasibility, efficacy, and adherence of home-based cardiac rehabilitation with the integration of telemedicine. Several components will be assessed such as quality-of-life, nutritional counseling, maximum metabolic activity (MET's), diabetic management, tobacco cessation, lipid, blood pressure, and psychosocial management. These tasks will be accomplished through concurrent conversations between patients and their therapist's utilizing telemedicine with observed exercise training.
The focus of this study is to determine the feasibility, efficacy, and adherence of home-based cardiac rehabilitation with the integration of telemedicine. The study consists of an initial review, rehabilitation sessions, nutrition consultation, and risk stratification. Once the patient is cleared for the rehabilitation program, they will be assigned a cardiac rehab specialist and begin the 36 rehabilitation sessions. The sessions include pre-session questions, surveys, pre-, during, and post vitals, exercise protocol, and off-the-device exercises.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
500
The ROMTech PortableConnect Rehab System is a continuous rehabilitative exercise therapy device that uses assisted movement to measure, evaluate, exercise, re-educate and strengthen muscles, and to increase joint range of motion.
ROMTech
Brookfield, Connecticut, United States
RECRUITINGSession attended
Measure the number of sessions attended to determine the ease of patients to utilize home-based cardiac rehab integrated with telemedicine (non-inferiority to historical controls)
Time frame: 12 weeks (End of treatment)
Sessions completed
Measure the number of sessions completed to determine compliance of patients to utilize home-based cardiac rehab integrated with telemedicine
Time frame: 12 weeks(End of treatment)
Duke Activity Status Index (DASI)
Estimate of functional capacity
Time frame: Baseline, 12 weeks (End of Treatment)
Patient Health Questionnaire(PHQ)
Quality of Life assessment
Time frame: Baseline, 12 weeks (End of Treatment)
Short Physical Performance Battery
Lower extremity functional assessment
Time frame: Baseline, 12 weeks (End of Treatment)
Short Form-36
Quality of Life assessment
Time frame: Baseline, 12 weeks (End of Treatment)
Laboratory assessment
To determine if there is an improvement in low density lipoprotein, triglycerides,
Time frame: Baseline, 12 weeks (End of Treatment)
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