[State and perspectives of development of rehabilitation trends in cardiology]

On the basis of the experience of rehabilitation of 500 myocardial infarction patients recommendations are given for the development of rehabilitation in cardiology. It is indicated that the problems of rehabilitation should be solved with the participation of the existing medical establishments, i. e. hospitals, sanatoriums and out-patient clinics, that should function as successive stages of rehabilitation. The main person responsible for the rehabilitative measures at each particular stage should be the attending pyhsician who had mastered the appropriate methodological principles. In choosing the rehabilitation program the attending physician should be assisted by a special rehabilitation team (commission that brings together at the patient's bedside the necessary specialists--kinesitherapy physician, psychologist, functionalist, sociologist. These organizational principles permit to arrange an extensive rehabilitative work within the existing pattern of medical institutions, without any significant changes in its structure.