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NEW PUBLICATION!
Exercise training in heart failure: from theory to practice.
A consensus document of the Heart Failure Association
and the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation
European journal of Heart Failure: Vol 13 : Issue 4 (April 2011)
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In order to achieve this mission, the Study Group recognises the importance and need of the following:
- To establish a pan-European expert network in exercise training and rehabilitation in heart failure To prepare a position paper on the exercise rehabilitation in heart failure covering the whole clinical spectrum of this syndrome
- To promote and coordinate multi-centre studies investigating the contribution of exercise conditioning on the natural course on heart failure
- To set-up a close collaboration with the other HFA committees and the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation for broader introduction of exercise rehabilitation into everyday clinical practice across Europe
Coordinator
Dr Massimo F Piepoli, FESC, FACC (Piacenza, IT) - email
Committee members
Piotr Ponikowski, FESC (Wroclaw, PL) (Co-Chairman)
Viviane Conraads FESC (Edegeb, BE)
Ugo Corra (Veruno, IT)
Kenneth Dickstein FESC (Stavanger, NO)
Darrel P Francis (London, GB)
Tiny Jaarsma NFESC (Linkoping, SE)
Burkert Pieske FESC (Graz, AT)
Ewa Piotrowicz (Warsaw,PL)
Jean-Paul Schmid (Bern, CH)
Petar Seferovic FESC (Belgrade, RS)
Objectives
- Write Consensus document on Exercise Training aiming to:
- Publish shorter version for the European Journal of Heart Failure (April 2011)
- Publish the full online version for the HFA web-site
- Organise ETP – course
- Organise practical “Hand-on” courses on Exercise Training in Heart Failure in collaboration with the other HFA committees and the EACPR
- Organise session at HFA Congresses