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Cardiac Rehabilitation

Guide to Procedures for the Twenty-first Century

Nanette K Wenger editor L Kent Smith editor Erika Sivarajan Froelicher editor Patricia McCall Comoss editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Inc

Published:29th Jun '99

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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 cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, primary care physicians, cardiac rehabilitation professionals, cardiac care nurses, dietitians, physical and occupational therapists, exercise physiologists, psychologists, behavioral counselors, hospital managers, health plan designers, and upper-level undergraduate, graduate, and medical school students in these disciplines.<

    • "
    …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

    ISBN: 9780824760922

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: 816g

    512 pages