KNGF Guideline Cardiac Rehabilitation

KNGF Clinical Practice Guideline for physical therapy in patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitationPractice GuidelinesPrefaceThis 2011 Guideline on Cardiac Rehabilitation by the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF) can be regarded as a specificsupplement for physical therapists to the 2011 general multidisciplinary guideline on cardiac rehabilitation (Multidisciplinaire RichtlijnHartrevalidatie 2011) published by the Netherlands Society of Cardiology (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Cardiologie, NVVC).The Guideline offers a manual for physical therapy interventions for patients who are eligible for cardiac rehabilitation on an inpatient oroutpatient basis. This Guideline replaces the 2001 KNGF Guideline on Physical Therapy in Cardiac Rehabilitation, which was revised in 2003on the basis of the AGREE instrument and was reissued in 2005.The first part (A) of the Guideline focuses on physical therapy care for patients with coronary heart disease (in accordance with the 2005KNGF Guideline on Physical Therapy in Cardiac Rehabilitation), while part B describes the physical therapy care for patients with chronicheart failure.The KNGF Guideline on Cardiac Rehabilitation consists of a set of Clinical Practice Guidelines, a separate document called Verantwoordingen Toelichting (review of the evidence, in Dutch) which presents the scientific evidence for the physical therapy interventions, and asummary in the form of a flowchart.All parts of the Guideline can be read individually.V-08/2011IV