Cardiac Rehabilitation Manual Third Edition 2025 Edition

This clinical reference provides extensive practical guidance for all professionals involved in the management of cardiovascular patients, including residents and fellows in cardiology and internal medicine, surgical teams, physiotherapy professionals, critical care physicians and family medicine practitioners. The thoroughly updated and extended content takes into account recent developments in cardiac rehabilitation and incorporates practical advice on how to use guidelines in clinical practice both in the general cardiology patient population as well as for challenging individual patient groups.

Cardiac rehabilitation is of key importance to ameliorate long-term morbidity and mortality resulting from cardiac diseases and events. For those physicians and trainees trying to define the scope of cardiac rehabilitation, this Cardiac Rehabilitation Manual Third Edition 2025 Edition distills the guidelines and various management options available into a concise practical reference resource.

Professor Josef Niebauer MD, PhD, MBA, is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Sports Cardiology, Rehabilitation. He is Chief and University Chair of the Institute of Sports Medicine, Prevention and Rehabilitation, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria, Director of the Ludwig Boltzman Institute for Digital Health and Prevention, and Director of the Rehab Center of the University Hospital Salzburg, Austria. Also, he is the President of the Austrian Association of Prevention and Rehabilitation, Past-President of the Austrian Society of Sports Medicine and Prevention as well as Past-Chair of the Sections of Sports Cardiology of the Austrian, German and European Societies of Cardiology. He received his medical training in Mainz, Germany; Vienna, Austria; Dijon, France; Tarabuco, Bolivia; Dumaguete, Philippines; Chicago, Il., USA; Sydney, NSW, Australia; his specialist training at the Universities of Heidelberg, Germany; Stanford University, CA, USA; Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College, University of London, UK; Leipzig, Germany; and training for his MBA at the Universities of Salzburg, Toronto, Canada; Marburg and Trier, Germany. His research interests lie in the fields of exercise training in cardiovascular, pulmonary and metabolic diseases; its effect on endothelial function, oxidative stress, metabolism, muscular adaptation, and pre-participation examination in athletes.