Main description:

The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology is a 'how-to' manual for busy healthcare professionals. Complementing the 2012 Joint European Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention and in line with recommendations from the European Association of Preventive Cardiology and it is an invaluable source of tools and skills to assist with the delivery of effective cardiovascular disease prevention.

While acknowledging that cardiovascular disease prevention efforts must be complemented by societal and community based strategies, this handbook focuses on practical strategies that can be used in clinical settings. Concise and easily accessible, it guides readers through the patient and family pathway - from patient identification, recruitment of the patient and family, assessing lifestyle and risk factors, to managing lifestyle change, reducing risk factors, and compliance with
cardio-protective drug therapies. Information on how to deliver a health promotion workshop programme and run a supervised exercise programme is also included.

Previously published as Preventive Cardiology: A practical manual and now fully revised and updated and packed with checklists and diagrams, such as risk estimation charts, The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology helps health workers contribute in real and practical ways to the prevention of artherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

This print edition of The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology, Putting Prevention into Practice comes with access to the online version on Oxford Medicine Online, for as long as the edition is published by Oxford University Press. By activating your unique access code, you can read and annotate the full text online, follow links from the references to primary research materials, and view, enlarge and download all the figures and tables.

Contents:

PART 1. WHAT IS PREVENTION AND WHY DO WE NEED IT?; 1. WHY DO WE NEED CVD PREVENTION?; 2. WHAT IS A HIGH RISK PATIENT?; 3. HOW TO ASSESS RISK; 4. BIOMARKERS IN RISK ASSESSMENT; 5. IMAGING IN RISK ASSESSMENT; 6. ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION AND CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; 7. PRIORITIES AND TARGETS; PART 2. PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF PREVENTION; 8. BEHAVIOURAL STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT AND SUSTAIN LIFESTYLE CHANGE; 9. ENGAGING INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND CARERS IN PREVENTION; 10. SMOKING CESSATION; 11. DIET AND WEIGHT: MAJOR LIFESTYLE CHALLENGES; 12. HELPING PEOPLE TO BECOME MORE PHYSICALLY ACTIVE; 13. BLOOD PRESSURE MANAGEMENT; 14. LIPID MANAGEMENT; 15. BLOOD GLUCOSE MANAGEMENT; 16. DRUG THERAPIES TO REDUCE RISK: EVIDENCE AND PRACTICALITIES; 17. IDENTIFYING AND MANAGING PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS; 18. PUTTING EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES INTO PRACTICE; PART 3. SETTING UP PREVENTIVE CARDIOLOGY INITIATIVES; 19. THE GLOBAL CARE PATHWAY AND HOW IT WORKS IN PRACTICE; 20. EXAMPLES OF THE INITIATIVES IN DIFFERENT CARE SETTINGS:STARTING PREVENTIVE AND REHABILITATIVE CARE IN HOSPITAL; 21. EXAMPLES OF INITIATIVES IN DIFFERENT CARE SETTINGS:COMMUNITY; 22. ENSURING QUALITY OF INTERVENTIONS