[Effect of stepwise rehabilitation of patients with various types of myocardial infarct on their work capacity and disability and means of increasing the social efficacy of rehabilitation measures (cooperative study)]

Abstract

The results of stepwise rehabilitation as part of current state-wide rehabilitation system, on working capacity and invalidism of the survivors of transmural, large-focal and small-focal myocardial infarction and 2 years' follow-up of 2193 patients of giving age are reported. Combined stepwise rehabilitation improves working capacity and invalidism rates both within the first and second year after myocardial infarction. Great potentials of improving social efficacy of stepwise rehabilitation involve better assessment of patients' condition, using specific criteria (clinical ones in particular) with due regard to acceptable and unacceptable occupations, careful choice of adequate jobs and correct estimation of the duration of temporary postinfarction disability.