Cardiac Rehabilitation Section

Investigating and defining standards for a better recognition of Cardiac Rehabilitation

Cardiac Rehabilitation is a secondary prevention programme, with exercise as the cornerstone of a comprehensive intervention which includes an educational programme, risk factors control and the patient’s voluntarily adoption of a healthy lifestyle to be kept for lifetime.

Section Nucleus

Objectives

Chair, Jean-Paul Schmid (CH)
Secretary, Constantinos Davos (GR)
Chair-elect, to be announced
Past-Chair, Massimo Piepoli (IT)

Nucleus members
Ana Abreu (PT)
Ugo Corra (IT)
Margaret Cupples (UK)
Patrick Doherty (UK)
Esteban Garcia-Porrero (ES)
Stefan Höfer (AT)
Susanne Pedersen (NL)
Bernhard Rauch (DE)
Carlo Vigorito (IT)
Heinz Völler (DE)

The EACPR Cardiac Rehabilitation section focuses on:

Investigation: to fulfil the gap of knowledge in Cardiac Rehabilitation

Recognition: to position Cardiac Rehabilitation as a priority or an important intervention by cardiologists and by Health Authorities in European Countries

Creation of a network of all the individual specialists and all the national organisations working in the Cardiac Rehabilitation field in Europe

Definition of the standards for certification of the Cardiac Rehabilitation centres and for the different specialists (continuous process of self-education)

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Don't miss:

Brainstorm with the Cardiac Rehabilitation Section at EuroPRevent 2012 in Dublin!
Share original ideas and project by participating in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Section Brainstorming:Friday 4 May, 13:00-14:00, Room ‘Liffey 2A’

News: Lifestyle & CVD Literature

Never too late to start moving!
Long-term trajectory of leisure time physical activity and survival after first myocardial infarction: a population-based cohort studyRead the comment by Paul Dendale

Main projects & Publications

Secondary prevention through cardiac rehabilitation: from knowledge to implementation
A position paper from the Cardiac Rehabilitation Section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation.
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2009 Nov 26.
doi 10.1097/HJR.0b013e3283313592
Key reference library on Cardiac Rehabilitation
European Cardiac Rehabilitation Inventory Survey (ECRIS): preliminary results (2008)
REhabilitation, quality-of-Life And eXercise tolerance in Internal Cardioverter-Defibrillator patients
European Cardiac Rehabilitation Database (ECRDB)

Congress reports

New scientific advances in cardiac rehabilitation, J. Niebauer (2009)

Poster Prize Winners

EuroPRevent 2011: A Kolesnikova (RU), Rehabilitation of patients with severe heart failure and pulmonary hypertension
EuroPRevent 2010: M Redaelli (DE), Randomized controlled trial on the effect of a long-term secondary prevention program over 3 years in a high-risk low-education cohort.
EuroPRevent 2009: K Parker (CA), Attendance in an early discharge clinic with symptom limited maximal exercise testing is safe and improves cardiac rehabilitation participation among low risk stemi patients
EuroPRevent 2008: G Malfatto (IT)
Three months of physical training improve left ventricular diastolic stiffness in chronic heart failure patients
EuroPRevent 2007: G Jackson (UK), Sexual rehabilitation for cardiac patients: the role of a specialist clinic