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Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression
Published on: December 10, 2014
[Effect of exogenous cardiosynchronized contrapulsation on human regional and central hemodynamics]
Abstract:
Variations in regional and central hemodynamics of man under the influence of exogenous contrapulsation (ECP) were examined rheographically. In recumbent subjects, ECP increased cerebral pulse blood filling, particularly of the vertebrobasilar system. It appears that the significant increase of the tone of arterioles and veins may be important when it becomes necessary to correct cerebral circulation in the situations that may lead to brain ischemia. It has been found that in the orthostatic tilt test ECP can be an effective tool for enhancing brain and lung blood supply and increasing stroke volume, cardiac output and blood pressure. This may help maintain homeostasis and improve orthostatic tolerance. The observation that ECP may facilitate blood supply of the vitally important organs, specifically brain, enables us to recommend this procedure to be used at an early stage of readaptation after simulation or real space flights.
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