Heart Rate Variability

• Main Author: Ernst, Gernot (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

This book is an evaluation of heart rate variability (HRV), the tendency for the heart rate to oscillate, increasing and decreasing depending on a number of factors. Such oscillations can give information on the state of the complex systems involved and can reveal a higher mortality risk. The author...

Table of Contents:

• History of heart rate variability
• Linear, Nonlinear and Complex systems
• The autonomic nervous system
• Methodological issues
• HRV and alterations in the vegetative nervous system
• Pathophysiological and Systems Biology considerations
• General Mortality
• Cardiology
• Perioperative care
• Intensive Care and Trauma
• Neurologic disorders
• Pain
• HRV in oncology and palliative medicine
• Psychiatry
• Diabetes
• Other Studies
• Conclusion.