Rehabilitation of the Cardiac Patient [antikvár]

Preface The chapters of this volume represent the invited presentations made during the Plenary Sessions and Symposia of the III World Congress of Cardiac Rehabilitation held in Caracas, Venezuela, in October 1985. This formal structured component of the Congress was designed to provide the attendees with a core curriculum in cardiac rehabilitation. Because coronary heart disease remains the predominant etiology of cardiac morbidity and mortality in industrialized countries the world over, components of rehabilitation for coronary patients were emphasized in all three Plenary Sessions. Included were the recommended approaches for secondary prevention and their outcomes, both for patients after myocardial infarction and after coronary bypass surgery; other areas addressed were the roles of noninvasive and invasive diagnostic procedures in coronary rehabilitation and the psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation of coronary patients. These important topics are serially presented in the first three sections of the volume. The final section consists of the summary papers of the six Symposia, each of which was concerned with the rehabilitation of selected subsets of cardiac patients - pediatric and adolescent patients, elderly coronary patients, patients with left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure; or with the rehabilitation of cardiac patients in selected settings - in different geographic areas; in the workplace, emphasizing return to work after myocardial infarction and coronary bypass surgery; and in the community phase of rehabilitation. Gratitude is acknowledged to the internationally recognized experts who prepared concise and appropriately annotated summaries of our current knowledge in these diverse areas of cardiac rehabilitation. The more than 600 registrants of the Congress, who came from 37 countries, contributed importantly to the assessment and sharing of information