CardioPulmonary Rehabilitation: Basic Theory and Rehabilitation (Contemporary Perspectives in Rehabilitation)

Author: Frances J. Brannon
Published: September 1997
Publisher: Davis F A
ISBN: 0803603185
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 486

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This text provides students with the information they will need to develop their decision-making skills, which are necessary to provide comprehensive and quality rehabilitation programs for cardiac and pulmonary clients. While noting the fact that coronary heart disease remains the leading killer in the US, the overview optimistically emphasizes the strides made in CHD technology, public awareness about disease prevention, and patient involvement. Brannon (Slippery Rock U., PA) leads a case-study laden presentation of cardiopulmonary health, disease, and rehabilitation: history, biology and pathology, medical/surgical assessment and management, exercise, behavioral risk modification, and managed care fiscal considerations. Appendixes on forms (referring physician, informed consent, patient program application); emergency measures; and flexibility exercises. . Emphasizes practical application of theoretical concepts based on current research, giving an overview, followed by chapters on the heart and circulation, anatomy and physiology of respiration, physiologic adaptations to aerobic exercise, pathophysiology of coronary artery disease, chronic lung diseases, medical and surgical management, the electrocardiogram, patient assessment, the exercise prescription, and risk factor modification. Lauren M. Saul, MSN, CCRN, Cardiovascular Clinical Nurse Specialist, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Margaret W. Foley, RN, MN, formerly of St. Joseph's Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia
Julie Ann Starr, MS, PT, CCS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
Frances J. Brannon, PhD, Professor and Coordinator of Exercise Science, Department of Physical Education, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania
Brannon, Frances J., PhD (Slippery Rock Univ); Foley, Margaret W., MN (St Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta); Starr, Julie Ann, MS, PT (Boston Univ); Black, Mary Geyer, MS, PT (Butler Memorial Hospital, Butler, PA)

Table of Contents1. Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation: Overview
2. The Heart and Circulation
3. Anatomy and Physiology of Respiration
4. Physiologic Adaptations to Aerobic Exercise
5. Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease
6. Chronic Lung Diseases
7. The Medical and Surgical Management of Cardiopulmonary Disease
8. The Electrocardiogram
9. Assessment of the Cardiac Patient
10. Pulmonary Assessment
11. The Exercise Prescription
12. The Exercise Therapy Session
13. Risk Factor Modification
14. Additional Components of Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Appendices
Index

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