Decomplexification in critical illness and injury: Relationship between heart rate variability, severity of illness, and outcome
Critical Care MedicinePublished 1 February 1998
Brahm Goldstein, Debra H. Fiser, Mary M. Kelly, Deanne Mickelsen, Urs E. Ruttimann, Murray M. Pollack
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The hypothesis that measures of heart rate power spectra are inversely related and negatively correlated to severity of illness and outcome in critically ill and injured children is supported.
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Our data support the hypothesis that measures of heart rate power spectra are inversely related and negatively correlated to severity of illness and outcome in critically ill and injured children. The phenomenon of decomplexification of physiologic dynamics may have important clinical implications in critical illness and injury.
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