TY - JOUR
T1 - Autonomic information flow improves prognostic value of heart rate patterns after abdominal aortic surgery
AU - Hoyer, Dirk
AU - Friedrich, Holger
AU - Stein, Phyllis K.
AU - Domitrovich, Peter P.
AU - Hoyer, Heike
AU - Faldu, Chriag
AU - Buchman, Timothy G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG, 53 175 Bonn, Germany (Ho1634/8-1,2 Ho1634/9-1,2) and by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, St Louis, MO, USA.
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - Purpose: Complex autonomic communication can be assessed by autonomic information flow (AIF) functions. The objective was to evaluate new complexity measures involving physiologically relevant time scales to predict the length of stay (LOS) in the hospital after abdominal aortic surgery (AAS). Our hypothesis was that AAS disrupts AIF, that restoration of AIF is necessary for recovery from major surgery, and that measures of AIF are superior to conventional heart rate variability (HRV) measures and equivalent to APACHE IV score in predicting LOS. Materials and Methods: Twenty-four-hour Holter recordings were analyzed in 94 patients after AAS for standard time, frequency domain, and several complexity measures of different time scales derived from AIF functions. The risk of staying in the hospital for longer than 7 days as a function of HRV measures and APACHE IV score was modeled by logistic regression. The area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic with 95% confidence interval as measure of predictive accuracy was calculated and internally cross-validated. Results: The long-term dacay of AIF over 100s (LD100) with cross-validated AUC = 0.67 (0.56-0.79) nearly reached the predictive accuracy of the APACHE IV score with AUC = 0.69 (0.58-0.79). None of the traditional time and frequency domain HRV measures remained in the multivariate models. The LD100 adjusted for ventilatory support with AUC = 0.70 (0.59-0.81) was equivalent to the APACHE IV score in this patient group. Although the strongest correlation between AIF measures and the APACHE IV score was found for LD100, r was only -0.37. Conclusions: Results confirm the hypothesis that AIF measures characterize pathophysiologic autonomic communication better than traditional HRV measures and may have similar predictive value to the APACHE IV score for LOS. The relative independence of the APACHE IV score and AIF measures suggests that AIF measures could add to clinical risk prediction.
AB - Purpose: Complex autonomic communication can be assessed by autonomic information flow (AIF) functions. The objective was to evaluate new complexity measures involving physiologically relevant time scales to predict the length of stay (LOS) in the hospital after abdominal aortic surgery (AAS). Our hypothesis was that AAS disrupts AIF, that restoration of AIF is necessary for recovery from major surgery, and that measures of AIF are superior to conventional heart rate variability (HRV) measures and equivalent to APACHE IV score in predicting LOS. Materials and Methods: Twenty-four-hour Holter recordings were analyzed in 94 patients after AAS for standard time, frequency domain, and several complexity measures of different time scales derived from AIF functions. The risk of staying in the hospital for longer than 7 days as a function of HRV measures and APACHE IV score was modeled by logistic regression. The area under the curve (AUC) of receiver operating characteristic with 95% confidence interval as measure of predictive accuracy was calculated and internally cross-validated. Results: The long-term dacay of AIF over 100s (LD100) with cross-validated AUC = 0.67 (0.56-0.79) nearly reached the predictive accuracy of the APACHE IV score with AUC = 0.69 (0.58-0.79). None of the traditional time and frequency domain HRV measures remained in the multivariate models. The LD100 adjusted for ventilatory support with AUC = 0.70 (0.59-0.81) was equivalent to the APACHE IV score in this patient group. Although the strongest correlation between AIF measures and the APACHE IV score was found for LD100, r was only -0.37. Conclusions: Results confirm the hypothesis that AIF measures characterize pathophysiologic autonomic communication better than traditional HRV measures and may have similar predictive value to the APACHE IV score for LOS. The relative independence of the APACHE IV score and AIF measures suggests that AIF measures could add to clinical risk prediction.
KW - Abdominal aortic surgery
KW - Autonomic information flow
KW - Heart rate variability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jcrc.2007.04.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jcrc.2007.04.005
M3 - Article
C2 - 18538221
AN - SCOPUS:38649104639
SN - 0883-9441
VL - 23
SP - 255
EP - 262
JO - Journal of Critical Care
JF - Journal of Critical Care
IS - 2
ER -