Cardiac rehabilitation

Maiorana, Andrew; Neubeck, Lis; Williams, Sian; Hill, Keith

Abstract

This chapter provides information on the process of rehabilitation, aims and objectives, measurement tools and instruments, selecting patients, patients unlikely to benefit from rehabilitation, physiotherapy, walking aids, occupational therapy, occupational therapy assessments and interventions, doctors, nurses, and other members of the rehabilitation team, social work and care management, as well as community nurses and health visitors.

• Acceptance Date: Mar 13, 2015
• Publication Date: 2017-12
• Deposit Date: Nov 9, 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 847-856
• Series Title: Oxford textbooks
• Edition: 3rd edition
• Book Title: Oxford textbook of geriatric medicine
• Chapter Number: 109
• ISBN: 9780198701590
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198701590.003.0109
• Keywords: cardiovascular disease, cardiac rehabilitation, secondary prevention, exercise training, education, risk factor modification.
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/414755