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    • Physiology
    • Biomedical Engineering
    • Exercise Science

    Background:

    • Portable noninvasive monitors for Heart Rate Complexity (HRC) and Compensatory Reserve Measurement (CRM) exist for supine combat casualties.
    • These monitors have not been evaluated in upright individuals during physical exercise.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To test the hypothesis that physical exercise induces proportional changes in HRC and CRM.
    • To evaluate the utility of HRC and CRM as noninvasive metrics of human performance during exercise.

    Main Methods:

    • Two instruments monitored 20 volunteers (9 civilian, 11 soldiers) before, during, and after physical exercise.
    • One device measured heart rate (HR), cardiac output (CO), heart rate variability (HRV), and HRC (Sample Entropy).
    • The second device measured HR, pulse oximetry (SpO2), and CRM.

    Main Results:

    • Exercise increased HR and CO significantly, while HRC and CRM decreased to below 50% of baseline.
    • HRV changes were variable and unreliable; SpO2 remained above 95%.
    • During recovery, HR and CRM returned to baseline faster than HRC, indicating differential recovery dynamics.

    Conclusions:

    • Exercise elicits similar qualitative changes in CRM and HRC in healthy, upright individuals.
    • CRM recovery is faster than HRC recovery, suggesting quicker compensation via vasodilation, muscle pump, and respiration compared to cardiac autonomic control.
    • Both HRC and CRM show potential as reliable, objective, noninvasive metrics for assessing human performance during physical exertion.