Heart Disease and Rehabilitation [antikvár]

Preface It has been interesting and exciting to have witnessed much of the development of the subspecial-des of primary prevention and cardiac rehabilitative medicine over the past 35 years. It is always difficult to identify who was first or how a field of shidy or discipline was started. In the modern era the studies of Levine and Lown in 1951 concerning the importance of getting patients out of bed (arm chair exercise) and, in 1957, Hellerstein and Fords' article in the Journal of the American Medical Association on cardiac rehabilitation had major impacts on making physicians and allied health professionals aware of the importance of cardiac rehabilitation. In 1972 the American Heart Associations' committee on Exercise (now called Exercise and Cardiac Rehabilitation) published its first guidelines on exercise testing and training of apparently healthy persons, and in 1975 for patients with heart disease and those at high risk. Their latest Exercise Standards were pubhshed in 1990 and updated in 1994. At its first Aspen conference in 1971, the American College of Sports Medicine began the development of its "Guidelines for Graded Exercise Testing and Exercise Prescription" (first edition, 1975) and certification conference for program directors in cardiac rehabilitation (1975). The establishment of a formal curriculum for developing professionals in the field of cardiac rehabilitation began in the 1960s at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, under direction of Bruno Balke, MD, and at San Diego State University by Fred Kasch, PhD, and Jack Boyer, MD. Further developments in curriculum were made by Phillip Wilson, EdD (University of Wisconsin, La Crosse), and by Paul Ribisl, PhD, and Henry Miller, Jr., MD (Wake Forest University). In 1972, the Airlie conference postgraduate course "Physiology and Psychology of Exercise Testing and Training of Coronary Disease Patients and Coronary-Prone Subjects: Principles, Techniques, Apphcations and Effects" set the stage for more organized and multidisdplinary rehabilitation programs. Proceedings from the conference were published by Naughton, Hellerstein, and Möhler in 1973, and they summarized much of the research data available on cardiac rehabilitation at that time. Five years later, in an attempt to further update the field of cardiac rehabilitation, Michael Pollock, PhD, then at Mount Sinai Medical Center (MSMC) in Milwaukee, and Donald Schmidt, MD, Chief of the Cardiovascular Disease section of MSMC, organized a conference called "Heart Disease and Rehabilitation: State of the Art." The proceedings of this conference were published in 1979 as the first edition of Heart Disease and Rehabilitation. From the roots of this meeting a plan was formed to produce a specialty journal in cardiac rehabilitation. In 1981, the Journal of Cardiac Rehabilitation was first published, with Michael Pollock, PhD, and Victor Froelicher, MD, as its co-editors (the journal has since changed its name to the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation). The Journal is in its 14th year of publication with Barry Franklin, PhD, the current editor. The field of cardiac rehabilitation showed a major development when the Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation was formed in 1986. The development of an association has been a catalyst for the formation of many state organizations and the forum for the presentation and sharing of ideas and knowledge of cardiac rehabilitation. In 1979, when the first edition of Heart Disease and Rehabilitation was published, the field of cardiac rehabilitation was in its infancy. The first edition was written by experts who helped develop cardiac rehabilitation and formed the first programs to practice it. The second edition, published in 1986, included a major updating and revision of chapters of the first edition. It included the latest information on clinical assessment of CHD, assessment of risk factors associated with the development of CHD, and the effect of risk factor modification on both primary and secondary prevention. It also included the latest information on exercise testing and prescription and the management of patients through their stages of recovery. This third edition includes work by 37 new authors, all contributing in their area of expertise. Information, topics, and areas have been condensed and reorganized; instead of 38 chapters, there are now 30,28 of which have been completely rewritten. All of these efforts in this latest edition have been done with the aim of accomplishing one thing: to provide a compact and comprehensive