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Advancing the Frontiers of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation tests the limits of traditional thinking in the field and challenges readers to integrate their practices into comprehensive disease treatment programs. The 11-part text contains 30 chapters written by some of the world’s most renowned scholars, researchers, and clinicians in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation. It offersreaders both a broad overview of the field and an in-depth analysis of contemporary issues facing practitioners.

An outstanding team of editors—Jean Jobin, PhD; Francois Maltais, MD; Paul Poirier, MD; Pierre LeBlanc, MD; and Clermont Simard, PhD—expertly introduces and summarizes the book’s contents. Thought-provoking scholarly papers from an international symposium on advancing services in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation have been edited into book format, making the text a readable, credible, and highly relevant reference.

The up-to-date text addresses service organization, pharmacological treatments, new technologies, home rehabilitation programs, integration of community-based programs and rehabilitation services, screening criteria for rehabilitation, integration of unconventional approaches and psychosocial services, and exercise prescription. The text features the following:

•Clear and compelling arguments about combining cardiac and pulmonary services to reduce costs and improve services

•A rich blend of experience and insight from international authors and presenters

•Comprehensive information that is of current interest and expertly balanced with historical perspective

Advancing the Frontiers of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation is an essential reference for professionals in the field.

List of Contributors
Acknowledgments

Part I. Introduction
Chapter 1. Conceptualization and Evolution of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation—Toward a New Paradigm
Chapter 2. Historical Perspective on Integrated Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation: From Hippocrates to Québec City

Part II. Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation: Services and Organization
Chapter 3. Distance-Based Technology Applied to Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
Chapter 4. Worldwide Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation…Where Are We Now?
Chapter 5. Inclusive Chronic Disease Model: Reaching Beyond Cardiopulmonary Patients
Chapter 6. Close Follow-Up for the Congestive Heart Failure Patient Using Outpatient, Home, and Palliative Care

Part III. Update in the Pharmacological and Nonpharmacological Treatment of CHF and COPD Patients
Chapter 7. Pharmacological Treatment of Heart Failure
Chapter 8. Pharmacological Treatment of Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Update and Future Directions
Chapter 9. Secondary Prevention of CAD: An Integrative Medicine Approach

Part IV. Integrating New Technologies in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
Chapter 10. Cardiac Pacemakers and Exercise Rehabilitation
Chapter 11. Mechanical Ventilation During Exercise in COPD
Chapter 12. Oxygen in COPD Rehabilitation

Part V. Home Rehabilitation Programs
Chapter 13. Case Management: Making Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Work in a Variety of Practice Settings
Chapter 14. COPD Rehabilitation: Maintenance on the Long Term

Part VI. Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
Chapter 15. Rehabilitation in Thoracic Surgery
Chapter 16. Update on Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery and Rehabilitation

Part VII. Selecting and Screening Patients for Rehabilitation
Chapter 17. Exercise Testing in the New Millennium
Chapter 18. Doppler Echocardiography for Stratification of Patients With Heart Failure
Chapter 19. Usefulness of the Timed Walking Test: An Alternative to the GXT in Cardiac Rehabilitation
Chapter 20. Selecting COPD Patients for Rehabilitation
Chapter 21. Who Responds to Exercise Training? Are We Asking the Proper Questions?

Part VIII. Integrating Unconventional Approaches in Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
Chapter 22. Peripheral Muscle Dysfunction in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Chronic Heart Failure: Two Diseases, One Common Consequence
Chapter 23. Upper-Extremity Exercise in Rehabilitation of COPD
Chapter 24. Ambulatory Chronic Heart Failure Patients in Rehabilitation: Cardiopulmonary Approaches

Part IX. Integrating Psychosocial Factors Into Rehabilitation
Chapter 25. Involvement of the Partner in Rehabilitation
Chapter 26. Smoking Cessation in Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Goal or Prerequisite?

Part X. Exercise Prescription: Special Considerations
Chapter 27. Exercise Training Above the Ischemic Threshold in Stable Coronary Patients
Chapter 28. Resistance Training for Health, Chronic Disease, and Rehabilitation: An Update
Chapter 29. Beneficial Impact of Exercise in Subjects With Diabetes and Heart Disease

Part XI. Conclusion
Chapter 30. Expansion and Globalization of the Frontiers of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation




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A reference for any professional in the cardiopulmonary rehabilitation field, from clinicians to researchers and all the professions in between.