Nonlinear dynamics of heart rate variability during experimental hemorrhage in ketamine-anesthetized rats.
Publication/Presentation Date
10-1-2000
Abstract
Indexes of heart rate variability (HRV) based on linear stochastic models are independent risk factors for arrhythmic death (AD). An index based on a nonlinear deterministic model, a reduction in the point correlation dimension (PD2i), has been shown in both animal and human studies to have a higher sensitivity and specificity for predicting AD. Dimensional reduction subsequent to transient ischemia was examined previously in a simple model system, the intrinsic nervous system of the isolated rabbit heart. The present study presents a new model system in which the higher cerebral centers are blocked chemically (ketamine inhibition of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors) and the system is perturbed over a longer 15-min interval by continuous hemorrhage. The hypothesis tested was that dimensional reduction would again be evoked, but in association with a more complex relationship between the system variables. The hypothesis was supported, and we interpret the greater response complexity to result from the larger autonomic superstructure attached to the heart. The complexities observed in the nonlinear heartbeat dynamics constitute a new genre of autonomic response, one clearly distinct from a hardwired reflex or a cerebrally determined defensive reaction.
Volume
279
Issue
4
First Page
1669
Last Page
1678
ISSN
0363-6135
Published In/Presented At
Skinner, J. E., Nester, B. A., & Dalsey, W. C. (2000). Nonlinear dynamics of heart rate variability during experimental hemorrhage in ketamine-anesthetized rats. American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 279(4), H1669–H1678. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajpheart.2000.279.4.H1669
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
11009454
Department(s)
Department of Emergency Medicine
Document Type
Article