Clinical Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Cardiologist's Guide

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Summary: Cardiac Rehab - Basic Information
Review: In this second edition the authors provide a comprehensive and authoritative account of this important area. Major topics given appropriate weight, and the proofreading was carefully done. Unfortunately, while readers are introduced to many trees, a picture of the forest fails to emerge.

Many references are provided, but although the book bears a 1999 copyright, and the pace of research in this field is very rapid, the most recent refrerences seem to be from 1997. There is no glossary, the index is not as complete as it should be, and outlines and flow diagrams are underutilized.

In several of the most important chapters, those involving exercise, the authors move from one sort of patient (e.g. healthy patients at risk to those post myocardial infarction to those in heart failure) to another in a fashion which leaves the reader uncertain as to which problems are under discussion.

Despite the relatively high price, those who have a need for a text covering this material would no doubt be ready to pay for a third edition if it were better organized and with more timely references.