Ectopy in trauma patients: Cautions for use of heart period variability in medical monitoring

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 125-129

  Sethuraman, Girish ^a   Ryan, Kathy L ^a   Rickards, Caroline A ^a,b   Convertino, Victor A ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Heart rate complexity; Heart rate variability; Hypovolemia; Physiologic monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CARDIAC COMPLEXES, PREMATURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 76249095427     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2597.2010     Document Type: Article

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