2004, Volume 11, Issue 04, pages 257-332

The objectives of this analysis were to ascertain the population need for out-patient cardiac rehabilitation in England, to estimate the current level of provision and...

Integrated Care Pathways (ICPs) are one way of implementing protocol-based care. Healthcare professionals need to draft and implement ICPs in order to meet clinical governance...

The titles of the lectures at a recent Primary Care Cardiovascular Society (PCCS) meeting show the face of British cardiology is indeed changing. Control of...

The National Service Framework (NSF) for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) requires practices to establish registers of patients with CHD and to implement audits of care...

The National Service Framework (NSF) for Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) requires practices to establish registers of patients with CHD and to implement audits of care...

Pneumopericardium is a rare condition, seen most commonly in the context of chest trauma in adults, and in mechanical ventilation in neonatal practice. Mortality is...

Meta-analyses of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) trials have shown improved survival^1,2 and significant improvements in cardio-respiratory fitness for individuals who have sustained a myocardial infarction...

This study investigated the current level of provision of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) for automatic implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) patients in the UK, the clinical and...

This article describes the process used to arrive at the set of assessment measures and minimum dataset for cardiac rehabilitation (CR) that has been endorsed...

Hypertension is a major cardiovascular risk factor and its pathogenesis remains elusive. For a long time, hypertension and dyslipidaemia have been viewed as independent but...

The circadian rhythms of the cardiovascular system are related to the risk of events such as myocardial infarction and stroke. The so-called ‘morning surge’ in...

To target statin therapy effectively in primary coronary heart disease (CHD) prevention, recommendations increasingly advocate the assessment of absolute CHD risk. Using methods from two...

Most treatments administered to patients act to relieve symptoms. But in the name of saving life, having an implanted cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) leaves the patient...