Cardiac Rehabilitation of Heart Failure Patients by Telemedicine

Cardiac Rehabilitation of Heart Failure Patients by Telemedicine: a Randomized Multicenter Study.

The purpose of the READ study is to compare the continuation of the cardiac rehabilitation at home with clinical follow-up, therapeutic education, and advice on the training at the stamina, via telemedicine with the classic strategy in day hospital.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient with a dysfunction of left ventricle with ejection fraction of left ventricle < 40 % appreciated by echocardiogram at hospital discharge for cardiac rehabilitation.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient non authorized to follow an effort training
• Therapeutic education impossible
• Pregnant woman or breast-feeding
• No assent
• Incapacity to use the terminal
• Minor patient or under supervision