The authoritative clinical handbook promoting excellence and best practice
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword vii
List of Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Chapter 1 Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation 1
Jennifer Jones, Gill Furze, and John Buckley
Chapter 2 Standards and Core Components in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation 21
BACPR Standards Writing Group
Chapter 3 Delivering Quality Standards 47
Kathryn Carver
Chapter 4 Health Behaviour Change and Education 67
Linda Speck, Gill Furze, and Nick Brace
Chapter 5 Lifestyle Risk Factor Management 99
Jennifer Jones, John Buckley, and Gill Furze
Chapter 5A Achieving Long‐term Abstinence from Tobacco Use in Patients in a Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Setting 101
Catriona Jennings and Robert West
Chapter 5B Diet and Weight Management 127
Alison Atrey and Rachel Vine
Chapter 5C Physical Activity and Exercise 151
John Buckley, Tim Grove, Sally Turner, and Samantha Breen
Chapter 6 Psychosocial Health 193
Linda Speck, Nick Brace, and Molly Byrne
Chapter 7 Medical Risk Management 227
Joe Mills, Susan Connolly, Barbara Conway, Marie-Kristelle Ross, Samantha Breen, and Dorothy J. Frizelle
Chapter 8 Long‐term Management 271
Sally Hinton, Ann Marie Johnson, and Gail Sheppard
Chapter 9 Audit and Evaluation 285
Patrick Doherty, Alex Harrison, Corinna Petre, and Nerina Onion
Chapter 10 Future Prospects and International Perspectives 305
Joe Mills, Sherry L. Grace, Marie‐Kristelle Ross, Caroline Chessex, Robyn Gallagher, Cate Ferry, and Vicki Wade
Index 313
