Why the study?
Does monitoring heart rate variability improve patient assessment compared to the Glasgow coma scale in neurosurgical intensive care patients?
Population
102 patients admitted to a neurosurgical intensive care unit
Comparison
Monitoring of instantaneous heart rate pattern… vs Glasgow coma scale
Design
Cohort
Authors
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HRV may aid serial neurosurgical ICU assessment; leaves open superiority to GCS or ICP correlation.
Does monitoring heart rate variability improve patient assessment compared to the Glasgow coma scale in neurosurgical intensive care patients?
Heart rate variability monitoring is a simple and useful clinical tool for the serial evaluation of neurosurgical intensive care patients, though it did not correlate strongly with elevated intracranial pressure.
Leipzig et al. (1986) studied this question.
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