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Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol 283: R789-R797, 2002; doi:10.1152/ajpregu.00069.2002
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Vol. 283, Issue 3, R789-R797, September 2002

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Sample entropy analysis of neonatal heart rate variability

Douglas E. Lake, Joshua S. Richman, M. Pamela Griffin, and J. Randall Moorman

Departments of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Division) and Pediatrics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908

Abnormal heart rate characteristics of reduced variability and transient decelerations are present early in the course of neonatal sepsis. To investigate the dynamics, we calculated sample entropy, a similar but less biased measure than the popular approximate entropy. Both calculate the probability that epochs of window length m that are similar within a tolerance r remain similar at the next point. We studied 89 consecutive admissions to a tertiary care neonatal intensive care unit, among whom there were 21 episodes of sepsis, and we performed numerical simulations. We addressed the fundamental issues of optimal selection of m and r and the impact of missing data. The major findings are that entropy falls before clinical signs of neonatal sepsis and that missing points are well tolerated. The major mechanism, surprisingly, is unrelated to the regularity of the data: entropy estimates inevitably fall in any record with spikes. We propose more informed selection of parameters and reexamination of studies where approximate entropy was interpreted solely as a regularity measure.

approximate entropy; newborn infant; sepsis


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