Cardiac Rehabilitation: Guide to Procedures for the Twenty-first Century - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0824760921 ISBN 13: 9780824760922

Casa editrice: CRC Press, 1999

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: CRC Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0824760921
• ISBN 13: 9780824760922
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 512
• Redattore: Wenger Nanette
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania