The Vron – a short-stay rehabilitation hostel

Short stay hospital treatment and rapid rehabilitation of cases of myocardial infarction in a district hospital.

Two hundred consecutive male cases of myocardial infarction have been treated along lines designed to provide a minimal time spent in bed, and in hospital, with early return to work. The method of treatment and the results are described. Rapid rehabilitation enabled 40 per cent to be discharged within a fortnight and 87 per cent within a month. Twenty-three per cent returned to work within 4 we...

Subnormality Hostel

Short-stay in-patient rehabilitation of elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: prospective study.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of a short-stay in-patient rehabilitation programme. DESIGN Prospective case-control cohort study. SETTING Regional medical centre, Hong Kong. PATIENTS One hundred and thirty symptomatic elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who had been treated for an acute respiratory illness in 1998. They were divided into two groups: the c...

Regional anaesthesia in day-stay and short-stay surgery.

The goals for ambulatory surgery are rapid recovery with minimal side effects, adequate postoperative pain control, rapid patient discharge and overall cost containment. The addition of regional anaesthetic techniques has been shown to decrease nausea, postoperative pain scores and the need for post-anaesthesia care unit monitoring. The use of regional anaesthesia is increasing as studies confi...

Effectiveness of a cardiac rehabilitation program during hospital stay

The article “Analysis of steps adapted protocol for cardiac rehabilitation during hospitalization”[1] aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of a cardiac rehabilitation program carried out by the physiotherapist during hospitalization in respect to post-operative complications, mortality and length of hospital stay. It stresses that there is a lack of cardiac rehabilitation protocols and is supp...