About the Book
This detailed reference provides practical strategies and a scientific foundation for designing and implementing cardiac rehabilitation services to relieve the symptoms of cardiovascular disease patients through exercise training and risk reduction and secondary prevention, improve quality of life, and decrease mortality.
Emphasizes multidisciplinary care that includes exercise training, behavioral interventions, and education and counseling regarding lifestyle changes and other aspects of secondary prevention!
Written by world-renowned physicians, nurses, exercise physiologists, psychologists, dietitians, educators, and counselors in the field, Cardiac Rehabilitation
presents evidence-based medicine as the cornerstone of clinical cardiology practice
discusses interventions that limit the physiological and psychological effects of cardiac illness
offers guidelines that enable elderly patients to maintain self-sufficiency and functional independence
describes means of social and workplace reintegration
evaluates policies for maintaining high-quality care, efficacy, and safety in an atmosphere of diminishing resources
explains the role of managed care in moving rehabilitative care into the home, workplace, and other nontraditional sites
assesses new interactive technologies that aid in tracking patient data
gives pragmatic recommendations for the delivery of cardiac rehabilitative care in the next millenium
and more!
Advocating integrated, high-quality, consistent cardiac rehabilitation services for the well-being of patients recovering from a variety of cardiovascular problems and procedures, Cardiac Rehabilitation is ideally suited for all medical professionals working in this field.
Table of Contents:
Series Introduction, Preface, Contributors, 1. Overview: Charting the Course for Cardiac Rehabilitation into the 21st Century, Part I. Exercise Training, 2. Benefits of Exercise Training, 3. The National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference Statement on Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health, 4. Rehabilitation Considerations in Exercise Testing, 5. Exercise Prescription, 6. Assessment for Exercise Training: Contraindications, Risk Stratification, and Safety Issues, 7. Components of Exercise Training, 8. Life-Long Exercise: Counseling for Exercise Maintenance, 9. Supervised Versus Unsupervised Exercise Training: Risks and Benefits, 10. Exercise Training in Special Populations: The Elderly, 11. Exercise Training in Special Populations: Women, 12. Exercise Training in Special Populations: Heart Failure and Post-Transplantation Patients, 13. Exercise Training in Special Populations: Diabetes, 14. Exercise Training in Special Populations: Obesity, 15. Exercise Training in Special Populations: Valvular Heart Disease, 16. Exercise Training in Special Populations: Pacemakers and Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators, 17. Exercise Training in Special Populations: Peripheral Arterial Disease, 18. Exercise Training in Special Populations: Associated Noncardiac Morbidities, Part II. Education, Counseling, and Behavioral Interventions, 19. Multifactorial Cardiac Rehabilitation: Education, Counseling, and Behavioral Interventions, 20. Matching the Intensity of Risk Factor Modification with the Hazard for Coronary Disease Events, 21. Scientific Basis for Multifactorial Risk Reduction: Overview with Emphasis on National Guidelines, 22. Smoking Cessation and Relapse Prevention: Case Management Approaches, 23. Lipid Lowering for Coronary Risk Reduction, 24. Management of Hypertension, 25. Weight Management and Exercise in the Treatment of Obesity, 26. Psychosocial Risk Factors: Overview, Assessment, and Intervention for Anger and Hostility, 27. Psychosocial Risk Factors: Assessment and Intervention for Depression, 28. Psychosocial Risk Factors: Assessment and Intervention for Social Isolation, 29. Stress Management, 30. Return to Work: Factors and Issues of Vocational Counseling, 31. Education for Special Populations, 32. Quality-of-Life Assessment in Secondary Prevention, Part III. Moving Cardiac Rehabilitation into the Next Century: Contemporary Challenges and Implementation Issues, 33. The New Infrastructure for Cardiac Rehabilitation Practice, 34. Case Management in Cardiac Rehabilitation, 35. Home-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation: Variations on a Theme, 36. Behavioral Change-Getting Started and Being Successful, 37. Motivating and Empowering Patients for Self-Learning, 38. Adherence to a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle-What Makes the Difference?, 39. Measuring Program Quality-Applying Standards and Guidelines, 40. Streamlining and Computerizing Cardiac Rehabilitation Charting, 41. Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Rehabilitation: What, Why, and When to Measure, 42. Medicolegal Issues: Practice Guidelines-Friend or Foe?, 43. Economic Issues: The Value and Effectiveness of Cardiac Rehabilitation, 44. Challenges and Opportunities for Additional Research, Index
About the Author :
Nanette K. Wenger, L. Kent Smith, Erika Sivarajan Froelicher, Patricia McCall Comoss
Review :
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…the book should be on the shelve of every centre occupied with cardiac rehabilitation because of the comprehensive and practical discussion of all aspects of exercise training and the overall multidisciplinary approach of the rehabilitation therapy.
"-Acta Cardiologica
The volume boasts an impressive list of contributors for many of the major cardiac centers in the country. It s readers will find that it offers a very practical and accessible format, a comprehensive review of the literature, and an extensive and well structured index. This book fills an important niche in the modern management of the patient with cardiovascular disease.
-Texas Heart Institute Journal
