Autonomic impairment of patients in coma with different Glasgow coma score assessed with heart rate variability
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Heart rate variability for assessing comatose patients with different Glasgow Coma Scale scores.
OBJECTIVE To assess the autonomic nervous system (ANS) in coma by heart rate variability (HRV). METHODS Sixteen comatose patients and 22 normal subjects with comparable ages and genders were studied. Patients were classified in two subgroups according to the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Time, frequency, and informational HRV domain indices were calculated. RESULTS A notable reduction of HRV wa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain Injury
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0269-9052,1362-301X
DOI: 10.1080/02699052.2018.1553312