Riabilitazione cardiologica

Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Practice is a comprehensive, practitioner-focused clinical handbook which provides internationally applicable evidence-based standards of good practice. Edited and written by a multidisciplinary team of experts from the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR), this book is invaluable for practitioners helping people with heart disease return to health. The text provides an overview of research findings, examines the core components of cardiac rehabilitation, and discusses how to support healthier lifestyles and reduce the risks of recurrence. Now in its second edition, this textbook has been fully revised to incorporate recent clinical evidence and align with current national and international guidelines. Increased emphasis is placed on an integrated approach to cardiac rehabilitation programmes, whilst six specified standards and six core components are presented to promote sustainable health outcomes. Describes how cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation programmes can be delivered to meet standards of good practice Covers a broad range of topics including: promoting health behaviour change to improve lifestyle risk factors, supporting psycho-social health, managing medical risk factors, and how to develop long-term health strategies Emphasises the importance of early programme commencement with assessment and reassessment of patient goals and outcomes, and gives examples of strategies to achieve these Discusses the role of programme audit and certification of meeting minimum standards of practice Looks to the future and how delivery of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation programmes internationally will need to meet common challenges Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Practice is an indispensable resource for all health professionals involved in cardiac rehabilitation and cardiovascular disease prevention.

This is a comprehensive textbook spanning the entire scope of cardiovascular and pulmonary practice. It includes CD-ROM with interactive case studies. Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy reflects the broadest possible spectrum of cardiovascular and pulmonary practice and draws upon the expertise of more than two dozen internationally recognized contributors. The second edition has been updated to cover the sweeping changes that have occurred in both the practice of physical therapy and the education of physical therapy students. These changes include health care cost containment, the introduction of the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice, and the utilization of the disablement model. Features: the Guide to Physical Therapy Practice is integrated throughout with an entire chapter devoted to its history and use; preferred practice patterns for cardiovascular and pulmonary physical therapy form the core of eight chapters are used as springboards to describe interventions and outcomes; case studies in practice pattern chapters allows readers to experience the proper application of the practice patterns; the patient-client management model is used in the case studies with appropriate test, measures, and interventions selected from the practice patterns and applied to the patient; "International Perspectives" provide a way to gain insight into the global practice of physical therapy; evidence-based and peer reviewed published material is included to help readers develop specific intervention regimens; and companion CD-ROM includes case-study-based exercises, video clips illustrating technical psychomotor skills, and demonstrations of cardiac and pulmonary physical exams.

Since publication of the third edition of this popular text, significant changes have occurred in physical therapy education. In keeping with these changes, this new fourth edition corresponds exactly with the practice patterns of the APTA's "Guide to Physical Therapist Practice". Readers will find a completely transformed and rewritten text, with chapter-by-chapter coverage of each practice pattern making this book unique in the field. This newly integrated and up-to-date book will be the text of choice for an entire generation of physical therapists the world over. Instructor resources are available.

This edition addresses the cost effectiveness of interventions that educate and motivate patients to assume personal responsibility for long-term disease prevention.

Thirty chapters written by renowned scholars, researchers and clinicians from the field of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation, offering readers both a broad overview of the field and an in-depth analysis of contemporary issues facing practitioners.