The effect of position on autonomic nervous activity in late pregnancy

Anaesthesia

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1161-1165

  Kuo, C D ^a,b   Chen, G Y ^b,c   Yang, M J ^a   Tsai, Y S ^d  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAO YUAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heart; pulse rate, variability; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

AORTA; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BODY POSITION; CAVA VEIN; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SUPINE POSITION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0030806661     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1997.254-az0387.x     Document Type: Article

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