Cardiac rehabilitation in Belarus: current status of the problem

Authors brought historical way of cardiac rehabilitation as sciences. There was described evolution terms and intensity of physical rehabilitation since XVIII century and so far. The separate attention was paid on social importance of cardiac rehabilitation and on its influence on resistant and temporary disability. There was provided not only historical review of cardiac rehabilitation status in countries of Western Europe and the USA but also data about cardiac rehabilitation in the USSR. In USSR in the 90th years of the XX century scientifically based program of physical rehabilitation and after myocardial infarction was created. Separate attention was paid on formation of cardiac rehabilitation in Republic of Belarus taking into account changes of organizational model rehabilitation help and also new medical, diagnostic and cardiosurgical technologies have been developed. Scientific researches in the field of cardiac rehabilitation have started in Republic of Belarus since 80th years of the XX century. Authors described newly created rehabilitation classification of patients after myocardial infarction and percutaneous coronary intervention. They studied the influence of thrombolytic therapy, percutaneous coronary intervention and developed rehabilitation programs on outcomes in patients after myocardial infarction. Significant effect of developed program of cardiac rehabilitation revealed by authors dictate the necessity of development and widespread similar rehabilitation programs for all categories of cardiac patients.