This session, recorded in April 2025, explores the evolution and impact of psychocardiology, highlighting its emergence as a critical field addressing the intersection of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and psychological distress. Participants will gain insights into key psychosocial stressors affecting CVD patients and learn how to apply screening tools and both pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic interventions to improve patient outcomes. Additionally, the session will emphasize the integration of psychosocial care into cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation, underscoring its essential role in the early detection and management of mental health conditions to enhance overall cardiovascular and pulmonary health.

Frailty is associated with higher mortality, disability, and hospitalization in the cardiac population. It is critical to identify frail and vulnerable patients and adapt their assessment and intervention plan within the frame of primary and secondary prevention of CVDs.

This presentation will address that vast variations of the placement of Cardiac and Pulmonary Rehab Programs in an organizational structure and how these structures can negative and/or positively impact program operations and sustainability.

This webinar will address current rules and regulations as they apply to Cardiac Rehabilitation, Intensive Cardiac, SET PAD, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Outpatient Respiratory Services programs.

The purpose of this webcast, released as a recorded webinar in Dec. 2024, is to clarify current billing and coding process, share current legislative priorities, and describe regulatory changes taking place in 2025.

This webinar will discuss the evolving evidence regarding exercise-based pulmonary (p)rehabilitation.

This session will provide an overview of the management of acute asthma.

This session will focus on two guidelines from the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) in conjunction with multiple other professional societies released that have direct implications for patients attending cardiac rehabilitation.

This session will focus on methods of quantifying, managing, and lessening frailty in the context of cardiac rehabilitation.

AACVPR strives to provide diverse educational opportunities for its members. During this session, authors will present their peer-reviewed research in a specific topic area, and presentations will be moderated by experts in the field.