Background: As the concept of nursing is changing fast, nursing is not only caring for the sick but takes care for prevention of illness, promotion and maintenance of health. The nurses multiple roles in cardiac rehabilitation have a “spider in the web like” character and depending on the phase of the patients recovery he/she acts as a
counsellor, a coach an educator. The study conducted with the aim and objectives of observing the effect of exercise based cardiac rehabilitation on selected cardiac parameters respectively. (1) Heart rate (2) Respiratory rate (3) Blood pressure (4) Saturation of peripheral oxygen (5) Mean arterial pressure (6) Rate pressure product. Material and Method: A pre-experimental one group-pre-test post-test design study was selected for the study 40 samples were selected by non probability purposive sampling technique, among hospital admitted patient those who full filled the inclusion criteriasuch as postoperated CABG patient who has completed 48 hours after surgery, admitted in selected cardiac unit, with stable regimen, both male and female patients was included. Exclusion criteria were patient with severe critical condition, strict bed rest advised and unconscious patient. Exercise based cardiac rehabilitation activity such as warm up exercise, diaphragmatic breathing exercise, active exercise of extremities,
positioning, coughing, huffing, incentive spirometry and ambulation were administered to the patient as per the scheduled duration. Modified observational checklist was used to assess the selected cardiac parameters during pre & post-test. Baseline data was collected from patient records. Validity done and reliability of checklist is 0.98.
Result: Showed that t-value of effectiveness of exercise based cardiac rehabilitation on selected cardiac parameters (t = 3.46 with df19) were found more than table value 2.09 at 0.05 level significant. Inference: Hence the exercise based cardiac rehabilitation was found to be effective in terms of cardiac parameters for post CABG Patient.
Conclusion: Hence the study finding revealed that the exercise based cardiac rehabilitation found to be effective and helpful in improving the cardiac functioning and parameter among postoperated CABG patient. Prolong or continuous performance of selected exercises will help the patient to maintain the cardiac health.
Keywords: Postoperated CABG; Exercise based cardiac rehabilitation; Cardiac parameters; Saturation of
peripheral oxygen; Mean arterial pressure and Rate pressure product.