Home-based remote cardiovascular rehabilitation in a patient after coronary intervention during COVID-19 pandemic - a case study

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) provides multidisciplinary management in the secondary prevention of cardio-vascular disease. In 2020, the public health during the COVID-19 pandemic was a primary concern, and there were no clear recommendations on how to practice phase II CR. This case report has described the implemen-tation of alternative CR in remotely guided telerehabilitation. The patient was monitored remotely for 12 weeks, followed by a one-year follow-up. Time series were evaluated with a comparison of cardiorespiratory fitness and body composition. The remotely guided CR and long-term observation results led to an expected significant improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness of 12.7%. Our case study indicates how to provide alter-native CR when exercise stress testing and direct supervision are not available.