Answer 4

  • Most responsible physician
    • Manage comorbidity of angina
    • Medications for angina
  • Nurse
    • Time medications
    • See how the patient is doing that day
    • If they have any investigations that day
  • Occupational therapists
    • Help with treatment sessions
    • Able to help prescribe gait aids
    • Potentially set up supports on discharge if needed. 
  • Family
    • Communicate with family to get a sense of social support, this will be especially important for discharge
  • Respiratory therapist
    • To ensure that the patient is not in need of oxygen therapy
    • Check to see chest expansion and status of their fibrosis progression. 
  • PTA
    • If the patient is safe to mobilize/perform home exercise programs and the PTA is competent in the skills that they need to perform (i.e. bed mobility, mobilizing to the toilet, following home exercise program) you can include PTA’s in your treatment plan.