Disease Management

Disease Management is a system of coordinated healthcare interventions and communications for people with conditions in which patient self-care efforts play a significant role

WHO reports indicate that the number of people with cardiac ailments in our country is growing alarmingly. If unchecked, 50% of the world’s cardiac cases will be from India by the year 2012. Changing lifestyles, high stress and sedentary work culture among the major contributors to emerging trends. However 50% of death & disability from Cardiovascular Diseases can be reduced by a combination of simple, effective efforts to reduce major CVD risk factors.

The hurdles that exist in the long term management of heart disease are:

• Poor understanding by patient of disease, risk factors and consequences of inadequate management
• Poor compliance to medication and therapeutic lifestyle changes
• Urgency given precedence over long term severity
• Challenges in providing coordinated treatment
• Monitoring difficult with patients lost to follow up

These can be successfully countered by the Heart disease management programme launched by the Apollo hospitals.

The programme is appropriate for

• Patients desirous of evaluation of cardiac status
• Patients with Hypertension
• Patients with Dyslipidemia
• Patients with other risk factors and family history of heart disease
• Patients with Chronic Stable Angina
• Post rehabilitation in patients with Ischemic Heart Disease

The package includes-

• Detailed case history
• Evaluation by Cardiologist
• Lab Investigations
• Review By Cardiologist followed by
  • Drug advice
  • Diet advice
  • Physical exercise advice
  • Counselling
  • Preventive measures
  • Home visit
• Home monitoring of BP
• Discounts on medication
• Follow up calls
• Emergency ambulance services