Association between heart rate variability recorded on postoperative day 1 and length of stay in abdominal aortic surgery patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1738-1743

  Stein, Phyllis K ^a   Schmieg Jr, Robert E ^a   El Fouly, Ahmed ^b   Domitrovich, Peter P ^b   Buchman, Timothy G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Abdominal aortic surgery; Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Intensive care unit; Nonlinear modeling

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AGING; AORTA SURGERY; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0034840256     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200109000-00014     Document Type: Article

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