Why the study?
PPG can provide information on cardiovascular responses to fluid shifts, but the ability of PPG-derived LVET and other features to identify progressive central hypovolemia during head-up tilt remained to be investigated.
Does simulated central hypovolemia via head-up tilt alter photoplethysmography morphology and LVET in human participants?
Does simulated central hypovolemia via head-up tilt alter photoplethysmography morphology and LVET in human participants?
PPG-derived left ventricular ejection time (LVET) changes significantly during simulated central hypovolemia and may serve as an early noninvasive indicator of blood loss.
May support PPG-derived LVET as noninvasive hypovolemia marker; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
PPG can provide information on cardiovascular responses to fluid shifts from upper to lower part of body under the condition of orthostatic stress. The current study investigated ability of PPG derived LVET and other PPG derived features to identify progressive central hypovolemia induced by head up tilt (HUT) and evaluated potential use of LVET as early noninvasive indicator of blood loss. Continuous finger PPG, blood pressure, and electrocardiography were recorded simultaneously during 5-minutes of baseline and HUT of 20°, 40°, and 60° from 15 participants (age: 26.5 ± 3 years; height: 177 ± 8 cm; weight: 72 ± 10 kg, mean ± SD). Beat-by-beat pulse rate (PR), systolic amplitude (SA), systolic time (ST), diastolic time (DT), and PP Interval (PPI) and Ratio of pulse rate over systolic amplitude (PR/SA) were derived for each stage. LVET was derived from each stage. Friedman test followed by post-hoc analysis using Tukey-HSD was conducted to highlight the significance of changes induced by HUT. Application of 60° HUT (i.e. moderate category simulated hypovolemia) resulted in a significant change in PR (80±3 bpm vs 68±3 bpm, p=0.0008), DT (264±7 ms vs 303±4 ms, p=0.0008), ST (110±6 ms vs 117±7 ms, p=0.02), PP interval (764±39 ms vs 869±25 ms, p=0.0045), PR/SA (112±16 vs 82±21, p=0.012) , SA (0.875± 0.2 vs 1.69±0.6, p=0.012) and LVET(292 vs 351ms,p=0.0008) compared to baseline. LVET has a strong association with the change in central blood volume and may be used as a sensitive early marker of progressive hypovolemia. The findings of the study support the hypothesis of differentiating simulated hypovolemia based on PPG alone.
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