Abstract
Guiding the failing heart to exercise.
Highlights
The benefit of exercise training in congestive heart failure (CHF) has become widely appreciated over the past 20 years
Scientific collaboration among national cardiology societies in Europe has become very close within the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and even large countries such as Germany no longer produce national guidelines, e.g. for myocardial revascularisation, but issue a German translation of the ESC
Division of Experimental Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Cardiovascular Research Institute COEUR, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, the Netherlands e-mail: d.duncker@erasmusmc.nl pocket guideline accompanied by a ‘commentary’ that puts ESC recommendations into a national perspective
Summary
The benefit of exercise training in congestive heart failure (CHF) has become widely appreciated over the past 20 years. In this issue of the Netherlands Heart Journal the Dutch Royal Society for Physiotherapy (KNGF) presents practical guidelines for exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation of patients with CHF [5]. The number of national guidelines in clinical cardiology in most European countries is currently declining, which is due to a number of reasons.
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