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Octopus Approach to Cardiovascular Management
Author(s) -
Chan Zenobia CY
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1046/j.1540-8191.2002.101412.x
Subject(s) - medicine , octopus (software) , fishery , biology , quantum mechanics , physics
The Octopus Approach to cardiovascular management aims to fill the inadequacies of the biomedical model in the aspect of both conceptualization and treatment as well as to place the patients in their specific life context by offering a holistic humanistic care to them. Each alphabet of the term “Octopus” stands for a specific facet below:O – ongoing means that any cardiovascular treatment should be a life long process for promoting positive health and preventing relapse.C – collaboration is intrasectorally and intersectorally to achieve a multidisciplinary approach in both prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases.T – therapeutic goals mean that they should be co‐constructed between the health professions and the patients.O – offering support is to let the cardiac patients and their families experience a sense of alliance and psychological support from the health care providers.P – participation is to encourage the patients to exercise their autonomy for selecting treatment as well as to empower them to have the ownership of their bodies.U – understanding and unfolding the experience of patients' illness by employing an empathetic counselling and self‐help groups.S – sociocultural perspective is to perceive the cardiovascular diseases of the patients in their unique life context.On the whole, the above approach is to question the necessity of the mono‐vision and hegemony of the western medicine that is embraced on both the ideology and the intervention for the cardiovascular diseases.