Cardiac Rehabilitation [antikvár]

Foreword Within the past ten years, there has been a remarkable change in the management of the cardiac patient, particularly the postcoronary patient. Most physicians practicing today were indoctrinated with the belief that the cardiac patient could best protect his longevity by reducing his physical activity and living a restricted life that never taxed his physical capacity. Dr. Lenore Zohman and Dr. Jerome Tobis have been among the clinicians who question the validity of this concept, and they have carried out clinical investigations aimed at determining if such restrictions are necessary or, indeed, even desirable. This monograph, Cardiac Rehabilitation, brings together the evidence now available on this question and, in particular, provides clinicians with reasonable guidelines applicable to the practical management of the cardiac patient. Throughout the volume, Drs. Zohman and Tobis place emphasis on techniques that permit practical evaluation of the functional capacity of the cardiac patient for the activities of daily living. Their work in the Montefiore Hospital program has been directed toward restoring the cardiac patient to as full functional capacity as possible. Fully recognizing that final answers on the value of exercise programs in changing the morbidity and subsequent mortality of the cardiac patient are not yet available^ they detail the evaluation and exercise-prescription procedures that have evolved from their own experience. By making their expe- XI