Chronic Cardiac Care (eBook)

Simon Stewart, Professor of Health Research, University of Queensland, Australia Sally Inglis, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia Anna Hawkes, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Queensland, Australia

Section 1: Background.

1 Pathophysiology and epidemiologic burden of chronic cardiac
disease.

2Key therapeutic targets in chronic cardiac care.

Section 2: Effective Models of Chronic Cardiac Care.

3 Slowing the progression of cardiovascular disease: innovative
approaches to cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention.

4 Chronic CHF management programs: an exemplar for chronic
cardiac care.

Section 3: Managing Care: From the Organization to the
Individual.

5 Organizational aspects of chronic cardiac care.

6 Individual aspects of chronic cardiac care.

Section 4: Optimizing Chronic Cardiac Care.

7 Establishing a nurse-led program of chronic cardiac care.

Index

"This excellent book will be an important resource for specialist
nurses involved in secondary prevention"

"...the authors offer a range of theoretical approaches which
can be adopted for practice together with useful examples"

"the authors are experts in their field and have written a book
which will be of interest to cardiac nurses wherever they live and
where the morbidity from cardiac disease is high. It will be of
particular value to nurses pursuing further academic study. It is
well referenced and will help students generate possible research
questions"-- Carl Margereson, British Journal of Cardiac
Nursing, April 2006, Vol 1, Issue 4