The cold face test: A non-baroreflex mediated test of cardiac vagal function

Clinical Autonomic Research

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 202-207

  Khurana, Ramesh K ^a   Wu, Roger ^a  

^a UNION MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic control; Baroreflex; Bradycardia; Cold face test; Diving response

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; PRESSOR RESPONSE; PRESSORECEPTOR; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; SKIN TEMPERATURE; STUDENT T TEST; VAGUS NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; BAROREFLEX; BRADYCARDIA; COLD; FACE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 33745074168     PISSN: 09599851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10286-006-0332-9     Document Type: Article

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