Pilot study of preoperative heart rate variability and adverse events in children emerging from anesthesia

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-57

  Elwood, Tom ^a,b   Cecchin, Frank ^c   Low, Jasmine I ^a,b   Bradford, Heidi M ^a,b   Goldstein, Brahm ^d  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Computer assisted; Electrocardiography; Heart rate; Postoperative complications; Respiratory tract infections; Signal processing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INFANT; LARYNX SPASM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ANESTHESIA; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; ELECTIVE SURGERY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OCULOCARDIAC REFLEX; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIA RECOVERY PERIOD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFANT; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PILOT PROJECTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REFLEX, OCULOCARDIAC; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE;

EID: 21744445964     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000149316.36372.2A     Document Type: Article

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