Pune: Inauguration of Cardio Pulmonary Rehabilitation Centre

Lieutenant General AK Singh, Army Commander of Southern Command, inaugurated a ‘Cardio Pulmonary Rehabilitation Centre’ at the Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences (AICTS, Pune). It is the first such facility to be developed in an AFMS hospital which offers a holistic Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Programme for patients with heart and lung disease.

The programme is medically supervised, individually tailored and consists of:

• Endurance-building exercises
• Meditation
• Yoga
• Education to improve the overall quality of life

A multidisciplinary holistic healthcare team comprising physiotherapists, dieticians, yoga teachers, doctors, and nurses will help treat these patients with various cardiac and/or pulmonary disorders who are either recovering after heart or lung surgery/interventions or have physical limitations due to cardiac or pulmonary disorders.

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Patients with heart and lung diseases tend to carry a psychological burden from their disease even after treatment and need a holistic care programme to get them back to their earlier fitness levels. Such rehabilitation programmes are crucial in their recovery.

The General officer also visited the state-of-the-art Virtual Reality Lab, again a first of its kind in the country. The lab uses virtual reality technology as a research tool to help in the surgical pre-planning of patients with complex congenital heart disease and simultaneously can be used in medical education.

Army Institute of Cardio-Thoracic Sciences (AICTS), Pune is a 600 bedded super speciality hospital of the Indian Armed Forces. It is one of the oldest centres of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery in India. The hospital was established in 1945 as Indo British General Hospital at Aundh in Pune. It was raised after the Second World War, as a hospital for Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases.

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