Is heart period variability associated with the administration of lifesaving interventions in individual prehospital trauma patients with normal standard vital signs?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1666-1673

  Rickards, Caroline A ^a,b   Ryan, Kathy L ^b   Ludwig, David A ^c   Convertino, Victor A ^b  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

decision support; heart period variability; heart rate; R R interval; trauma; triage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITAL SIGN;

EID: 77954954886     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181e74cab     Document Type: Article

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