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Muna H Hammash1, Debra K Moser2, Susan K Frazier2
1Muna H. Hammash is an assistant professor at the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky. Debra K. Moser and Terry A. Lennie are professors, Susan K. Frazier is an associate professor, and Melanie Hardin-Pierce is an assistant professor at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky. mhhamm01@louisville.edu.
Background:
Weaning from mechanical ventilation to spontaneous breathing is associated with changes in the hemodynamic and autonomic nervous systems that are reflected by heart rate variability. Although cardiac dysrhythmias are an important manifestation of hemodynamic alterations, the impact of heart rate variability on the occurrence of dysrhythmias during weaning has not been specifically studied.
Objectives:
To describe differences in heart rate variability spectral power and occurrence of cardiac dysrhythmias at baseline and during the initial trial of weaning from mechanical ventilation and to evaluate the impact of heart rate variability during weaning on occurrence of dysrhythmias.
Method:
Continuous 3-lead electrocardiographic recordings were collected from 35 patients receiving mechanical ventilation for 24 hours at baseline and during the initial weaning trial. Heart rate variability was evaluated by using spectral power analysis.
Results:
Low-frequency power increased (P = .04) and high-frequency and very-low-frequency power did not change during weaning. The mean number of supraventricular ectopic beats per hour during weaning was higher than the mean at baseline (P < .001); the mean of ventricular ectopic beats did not change. Low-frequency power was a predictor of ventricular and supraventricular ectopic beats during weaning (P < .001). High-frequency power was predictive of ventricular and supraventricular (P = .02) ectopic beats during weaning. Very-low-frequency power was predictive of ventricular ectopic beats (P < .001) only.
Conclusion:
Heart rate variability power spectra during weaning were predictive of dysrhythmias.
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