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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 275: R1287-R1292, 1998;
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Vol. 275, Issue 4, R1287-R1292, October 1998

Uncoupling of the autonomic and cardiovascular systems in acute brain injury

Brahm Goldstein, Daniel Toweill, Susanna Lai, Karen Sonnenthal, and Brent Kimberly

Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 97201

We hypothesized that acute brain injury results in decreased heart rate (HR) variability and baroreflex sensitivity indicative of uncoupling of the autonomic and cardiovascular systems and that the degree of uncoupling should be proportional to the degree of neurological injury. We used HR and blood pressure (BP) power spectral analysis to measure neuroautonomic regulation of HR and BP and the transfer function magnitude (TF) between BP and HR as a measure of baroreflex modulation of HR. In 24 brain-injured patients [anoxic/ischemic injury (n = 7), multiple trauma (n = 6), head trauma (n = 5), central nervous system infection (n = 4), and intracranial hemorrhage (n = 2)], neurological injury and survival was associated with low-frequency (0.01-0.15 Hz) HR and BP power and TF. Brain-dead patients showed decreased low-frequency HR power [0.51 ± 0.36 (SE) vs. 2.54 ± 0.14 beats/min2, P = 0.03] and TF [0.61 ± 0.16 (SE) vs. 1.29 ± 0.07 beats · min-1 · mmHg-1, P = 0.05] compared with non-brain-dead patients. We conclude that 1) severity of neurological injury and outcome are inversely associated with HR and BP variability and 2) there is direct evidence for cardiovascular and autonomic uncoupling in acute brain injury with complete uncoupling during brain death.

variability; power spectral analysis; transfer function magnitude; brain death


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