BACR Guidelines for Cardiac Rehabilitation

Andrew Justin Stewart Coats was born February 1, 1958 in Melbourne. He is an Australian–British academic cardiologist who has particular interest in the management of heart failure. His research turned established teaching on its head and promoted exercise training (rather than bed rest) as a treatment for chronic heart failure. He was instrumental in describing the "muscle hypothesis" of heart failure. In addition to this, Coats is also a successful fundraiser, university administrator, and inventor. His Imperial College patents have formed the basis of companies specialising in the treatment of cachexia (Myotec and PsiOxus).  Stewart Coats was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, where he was proxime accessit Head of School and a School Officer; St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he graduated with a B.A. in Physiological Sciences with First-Class Honours and won the Rose Prize; and Clare College, Cambridge, where he read medicine, earning a M.B. B.Chir., and was top of his year with two distinctions.

Introduction and UK status; historical background; structure and content, management and administration; medical aspects of cardiac rehabilitation; exercise testing and prescription; motivation to exercise; psychosocial aspects of cardiac rehabilitation; dietary aspects of cardiac rehabilitation; funding issues in cardiac rehabilitation.