Abreu Ana - ESC Handbook of Cardiovascular Rehabilitation

The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine (Third Edition)

Edited by A. John Camm, Thomas F. Lscher, Gerald Maurer, and Patrick W. Serruys

The ESC Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiovascular Care (Second Edition)

Edited by Marco Tubaro, Pascal Vranckx, Susanna Price, and Christiaan Vrints

The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging (Second Edition)

Edited by Jose Luis Zamorano, Jeroen Bax, Juhani Knuuti, Patrizio Lancellotti, Luigi Badano, and Udo Sechtem

The ESC Textbook of Preventive Cardiology

Edited by Stephan Gielen, Guy De Backer, Massimo Piepoli, and David Wood

The EHRA Book of Pacemaker, ICD, and CRT Troubleshooting: Case-based learning with multiple choice questions

Edited by Harran Burri, Carsten Israel, and Jean-Claude Deharo

The EACVI Echo Handbook

Edited by Patrizio Lancellotti and Bernard Cosyns

The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology: Putting prevention into practice

Edited by Catriona Jennings, Ian Graham, and Stephan Gielen

The EACVI Textbook of Echocardiography (Second edition)

Edited by Patrizio Lancellotti, Jose Luis Zamorano, Gilbert Habib, and Luigi Badano

The EHRA Book of Interventional Electrophysiology: Case-based learning with multiple choice questions

Edited by Hein Heidbuchel, Matthias Duytschaever, and Harran Burri

The ESC Textbook of Vascular Biology

Edited by Robert Krams and Magnus Back

The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Development

Edited by Jose Maria Perez Pomares and Robert Kelly

The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

Edited by Sven Plein, Massimo Lombardi, Steffen Petersen, Emanuela Valsangiacomo, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, and Victor Ferrari

The ESC Textbook of Sports Cardiology

Edited by Antonio Pelliccia, Heid Heidbuchel, Domenico Corrado, Mats Borjesson, and Sanjay Sharma

The ESC Handbook on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy

Edited by Juan Carlos Kaski and Keld Per Kjeldsen

The ESC Textbook of Textbook of Intensive and Acute Cardiovascular Care (Third Edition)

Edited by Marco Tubaro, Pascal Vranckx, Susanna Price, Christiaan Vrints, and Eric Bonnefoy

The ESC Textbook of Cardiovascular Imaging (Third Edition)

Edited by Jose Luis Zamorano, Jeroen Bax, Juhani Knuuti, Patrizio Lancellotti, Bogdan Popescu, and Fausto Pinto

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Until recently cardiac rehabilitation has been the poor relation of cardiovascular medicine. For several years it was only performed in a few places where enthusiasts organized rehabilitation programmes. It was a long time before scientific evidence was provided which changed the way the medical community now regards cardiac rehabilitation.

Today cardiac rehabilitation has been rehabilitated and is present and recommended in all the guidelines produced by the main organizations around the world. Many cardiovascular departments in a number of countries now have organized programmes of cardiac rehabilitation. However, there are still several obstacles that have to be identified in order to apply the best solutions. A fundamental obstacle is the need for appropriate education of the medical community that is potentially more involved with the use and recommendation of cardiac rehabilitation. That is where this book plays a central role. It provides comprehensive information, from basic principles to the organization of cardiac rehabilitation centres, including a detailed description of the practical aspects of developing and implementing cardiac rehabilitation in a variety of settings and populations. It is based on the recommendations of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), but also includes relevant information based on the extensive experience of the authors. It is the first structured comprehensive EAPC publication dealing with cardiac rehabilitation will certainly be an important milestone in the field.

This book will also make an important contribution to promoting cardiac rehabilitation (cardiovascular rehabilitation in a broader sense) on a global scale, particularly in places where there are difficulties in developing appropriate rehabilitation programmes, or even reluctance to do so. The World Heart Federation (WHF), as a global organization, is also engaged in promoting good practice around the world and identifies itself with projects, such as this one, coming from one of its strategic partners with an enormous potential to help in the global promotion of cardiovascular rehabilitation.

We live in a very complex world and at the time of writing this foreword we are facing the greatest challenge of our generationthe coronavirus pandemic. We will only be able to overcome this enormous challenge through the global cooperation by the medical and scientific community. Whatever the outcome of this crisis, the need for global cooperation will certainly be reinforced, and that is where projects such as this book can help to disseminate knowledge and implement programmes that can help people to live longer and better.