Cardiac Rehabilitation

<p>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.<br>Emphasizes multidisciplinary care that includes exercise training behavioral interventions and education and counseling regarding lifestyle changes and other aspects of secondary prevention!<br>Written by world-renowned physicians nurses exercise physiologists psychologists dietitians educators and counselors in the field Cardiac Rehabilitation</p><li>presents evidence-based medicine as the cornerstone of clinical cardiology practice <br> </li><li>discusses interventions that limit the physiological and psychological effects of cardiac illness <br> </li><li>offers guidelines that enable elderly patients to maintain self-sufficiency and functional independence <br> </li><li>describes means of social and workplace reintegration <br> </li><li>evaluates policies for maintaining high-quality care efficacy and safety in an atmosphere of diminishing resources <br> </li><li>explains the role of managed care in moving rehabilitative care into the home workplace and other nontraditional sites <br> </li><li>assesses new interactive technologies that aid in tracking patient data <br> </li><li>gives pragmatic recommendations for the delivery of cardiac rehabilitative care in the next millenium <br> </li><li>and more!<br>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.</li>