Non-invasive continuous arterial pressure, heart rate and stroke volume measurements during graded head-up tilt in normal man

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. A. H. Critchley ◽  
F. Conway ◽  
P. J. Anderson ◽  
B. Tomlinson ◽  
J. A. J. H. Critchley
Hypertension ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (suppl_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hossam A Shaltout ◽  
Ashley L Wagoner ◽  
John E Fortunato ◽  
Debra I Diz

We previously reported that ~70% of adolescents presenting to a Pediatric GI clinic for chronic nausea exhibit orthostatic intolerance (OI) in response to head upright tilt testing (HUT). The objective of this study was to determine whether supine mean arterial pressure or hemodynamic responses to HUT differ in these patients. Forty-eight patients (mean age of 15 [10-18] years, 36 females) completed a 45 minutes 0 to 70° HUT. Continuous blood pressure and heart rate recordings were acquired using non-invasive finger cuff. Thirteen subjects had normal tilt (Normal) while thirty five demonstrated OI. There were no differences between the two groups in supine blood pressures (BP), baroreflex sensitivity measured by frequency method in HF range (BRS), heart rate variability (HRV) measured as the root of mean square of successive differences (rMSSD), blood pressure variability (BPV) measured as standard deviation of mean arterial pressure (SDMAP) or the sympathovagal balance measure LF RRI /HF RRI . HUT caused a greater increase in heart rate in OI group (from 71 ± 6 beats/min to 104 ± 4 in OI vs from 75 ± 3 to 95 ±3 in normal, p=0.01) which was accompanied with lesser increase in BP (mainly due to lack of increase in diastolic) in the OI group. There was a trend for greater reduction in BRS in OI subjects (from 28.5 ± 13 ms/mm Hg to 6.3 ± 0.8 in OI vs from 21.1 ± 3.6 to 12.0 ± 2.9 in normal, p=0.09). HUT impaired HRV in both groups compared to supine values but the reduction was greater in OI group (-66.7 ± 4 % vs -52.0 ±5.6 in normal, p=<0.001). SDMAP increased by HUT compared to supine but to a greater extent in OI (40.6 ± 4 % vs 13.4 ± 8 in normal, p=0.02). LF RRI /HF RRI increased to a greater magnitude in OI group with HUT (from 1.8 ± 0.8 to 6.8 ± 0.8 in OI vs from 1.14 ± 0.18 to 4.1 ±0.7 in normal, p=0.02). These data reveal that the adolescents with orthostatic intolerance have attenuated parasympathetic responses and exaggerated activation of the sympathetic system to the heart and blood vessels. Despite these responses, subjects fail to maintain BP. Similar to previous studies in other subjects with OI, the excessive tachycardia often followed by syncope in most of these adolescents may reflect a loss of vascular responses to the activation of sympathetic and neurohumoral stimuli. Support: AHA12CRP9420029


1999 ◽  
Vol 97 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark P. M. HARMS ◽  
Karel H. WESSELING ◽  
Frank POTT ◽  
Morten JENSTRUP ◽  
Jeroen VAN GOUDOEVER ◽  
...  

The relationship between aortic flow and pressure is described by a three-element model of the arterial input impedance, including continuous correction for variations in the diameter and the compliance of the aorta (Modelflow). We computed the aortic flow from arterial pressure by this model, and evaluated whether, under orthostatic stress, flow may be derived from both an invasive and a non-invasive determination of arterial pressure. In 10 young adults, Modelflow stroke volume (MFSV) was computed from both intra-brachial arterial pressure (IAP) and non-invasive finger pressure (FINAP) measurements. For comparison, a computer-controlled series of four thermodilution estimates (thermodilution-determined stroke volume; TDSV) were averaged for the following positions: supine, standing, head-down tilt at 20 ° (HDT20) and head-up tilt at 30 ° and 70 ° (HUT30 and HUT70 respectively). Data from one subject were discarded due to malfunctioning thermodilution injections. A total of 155 recordings from 160 series were available for comparison. The supine TDSV of 113±13 ml (mean±S.D.) dropped by 40% to 68±14 ml during standing, by 24% to 86±12 ml during HUT30, and by 51% to 55±15 ml during HUT70. During HDT20, TDSV was 114±13 ml. MFSV for IAP underestimated TDSV during HDT20 (-6±6 ml; P < 0.05), but that for FINAP did not (-4±7 ml; not significant). For HUT70 and standing, MFSV for IAP overestimated TDSV by 11±10 ml (HUT70; P < 0.01) and 12±9 ml (standing; P < 0.01). However, the offset of MFSV for FINAP was not significant for either HUT70 (3±8 ml) or standing (3±9 ml). In conclusion, due to orthostasis, changes in the aortic transmural pressure may lead to an offset in MFSV from IAP. However, Modelflow correctly calculated aortic flow from non-invasively determined finger pressure during orthostasis.


1959 ◽  
Vol 196 (4) ◽  
pp. 745-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. Rushmer

Diastolic and systolic dimensions of the left ventricle and the free wall of the right ventricle in intact dogs are affected little by spontaneous exercise. The concept that stroke volume and heart rate in normal man increase by about the same relative amounts was derived from estimations of cardiac output, particularly in athletes, based upon indirect measurements using foreign gases or CO2. Data for man obtained with the modern cardiac catheterization or indicator dilution techniques confirm the impression derived from intact dogs that increased stroke volume is neither an essential nor a characteristic feature of the normal cardiac response to exercise. Stroke volume undoubtedly increases whenever cardiac output is increased with little change in heart rate (e.g. in athletes or in patients with chronic volume loads on the heart). Tachycardia produced experimentally with an artificial pacemaker in a resting dog causes a marked reduction in diastolic and systolic dimensions and in the stroke change of dimensions. The factors generally postulated to increase stroke volume during normal exercise may prevent the reduction in stroke volume accompanying tachycardia.


1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (2) ◽  
pp. H812-H822 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Rose ◽  
J. S. Schwaber

Vagal control of the heart is the most rapidly responding limb of the arterial baroreflex. We created a mathematical model of the left heart and vascular system to evaluate the ability of heart rate to influence blood pressure. The results show that arterial pressure depends nonlinearly on rate and that changes in rate are of limited effectiveness, particularly when rate is increased above the basal level. A 10% change in heart rate from rest causes a change of only 2.4% in arterial pressure due to the reciprocal relation between heart rate and stroke volume; at higher rates, insufficient filling time causes stroke volume to fall. These findings agree well with published experimental data and challenge the idea that changes in heart rate alone can strongly and rapidly affect arterial pressure. Possible implications are that vagally mediated alterations in inotropic and dromotropic state, which are not included in this model, play important roles in the fast reflex control of blood pressure or that the vagal limb of the baroreflex is of rather limited effectiveness.


1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burton S. Tabakin ◽  
John S. Hanson ◽  
Thornton W. Merriam ◽  
Edgar J. Caldwell

The physiologic variables defining the circulatory and respiratory state in normal man have been measured in recumbency, standing at rest and during progressively severe grades of exercise approaching near-maximal levels. Indicator-dilution technique was used for determination of cardiac output with simultaneous radio-electrocardiographic recordings of heart rate. Direct intra-arterial pressure measurements were utilized for calculation of peripheral vascular resistance. Minute volume of ventilation, oxygen utilization, and carbon dioxide elimination were obtained from analysis of expired air collected at the time of each cardiac output determination. A peak mean workload of 1,501 kg-m/min was realized during the treadmill exercise. Increases in cardiac output over the range of exercise employed correlated well with indices of workload such as heart rate, oxygen utilization, and minute volume of ventilation. There was no correlation of stroke volume with these indices. It is concluded from examination of individual stroke-volume responses that a progressive increase in stroke volume is not a necessary or constant phenomenon in adapting to increasing workload. cardiac output in treadmill exercise; dye-dilution cardiac output determinations; arterial pressure during upright exercise; stroke-volume response to graded treadmill exercise; exercise response of cardiac output and stroke volume; peripheral vascular resistance response to position and exercise; treadmill exercise—effects on cardiac output, stroke volume, and oxygen uptake; minute ventilation, cardiac output, and stroke volume during exercise; carbon dioxide elimination during treadmill exercise; heart rate and cardiac output during treadmill exercise; exercise; physiology Submitted on July 12, 1963


2007 ◽  
Vol 112 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan T. Groothuis ◽  
Nynke van Dijk ◽  
Walter ter Woerds ◽  
Wouter Wieling ◽  
Maria T. E. Hopman

In patients with orthostatic intolerance, the mechanisms to maintain BP (blood pressure) fail. A physical counter-manoeuvre to postpone or even prevent orthostatic intolerance in these patients is leg crossing combined with muscle tensing. Although the central haemodynamic effects of physical counter-manoeuvres are well documented, not much is known about the peripheral haemodynamic events. Therefore the purpose of the present study was to examine the peripheral haemodynamic effects of leg crossing combined with muscle tensing during 70° head-up tilt. Healthy subjects (n=13) were monitored for 10 min in the supine position followed by 10 min in 70° head-up tilt and, finally, for 2 min of leg crossing with muscle tensing in 70° head-up tilt. MAP (mean arterial BP), heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output and total peripheral resistance were measured continuously by Portapres. Leg blood flow was measured using Doppler ultrasound. Leg vascular conductance was calculated as leg blood flow/MAP. A significant increase in MAP (13 mmHg), stroke volume (27%) and cardiac output (18%), a significant decrease in heart rate (−5 beats/min) and no change in total peripheral resistance during the physical counter-manoeuvre were observed when compared with baseline 70° head-up tilt. A significant increase in leg blood flow (325 ml/min) and leg vascular conductance (2.9 arbitrary units) were seen during the physical counter-manoeuvre when compared with baseline 70° head-up tilt. In conclusion, the present study indicates that the physical counter-manoeuvre of leg crossing combined with muscle tensing clearly enhances leg blood flow and, at the same time, elevates MAP.


2008 ◽  
Vol 108 (5) ◽  
pp. 802-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Dyer ◽  
Jenna L. Piercy ◽  
Anthony R. Reed ◽  
Carl J. Lombard ◽  
Leann K. Schoeman ◽  
...  

Background Hemodynamic responses to spinal anesthesia (SA) for cesarean delivery in patients with severe preeclampsia are poorly understood. This study used a beat-by-beat monitor of cardiac output (CO) to characterize the response to SA. The hypothesis was that CO would decrease from baseline values by less than 20%. Methods Fifteen patients with severe preeclampsia consented to an observational study. The monitor employed used pulse wave form analysis to estimate nominal stroke volume. Calibration was by lithium dilution. CO and systemic vascular resistance were derived from the measured stroke volume, heart rate, and mean arterial pressure. In addition, the hemodynamic effects of phenylephrine, the response to delivery and oxytocin, and hemodynamics during recovery from SA were recorded. Hemodynamic values were averaged for defined time intervals before, during, and after SA. Results Cardiac output remained stable from induction of SA until the time of request for analgesia. Mean arterial pressure and systemic vascular resistance decreased significantly from the time of adoption of the supine position until the end of surgery. After oxytocin administration, systemic vascular resistance decreased and heart rate and CO increased. Phenylephrine, 50 mug, increased mean arterial pressure to above target values and did not significantly change CO. At the time of recovery from SA, there were no clinically relevant changes from baseline hemodynamic values. Conclusions Spinal anesthesia in severe preeclampsia was associated with clinically insignificant changes in CO. Phenylephrine restored mean arterial pressure but did not increase maternal CO. Oxytocin caused transient marked hypotension, tachycardia, and increases in CO.


1985 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. I. Musch ◽  
G. C. Haidet ◽  
G. A. Ordway ◽  
J. C. Longhurst ◽  
J. H. Mitchell

Ten foxhounds were studied during maximal and submaximal exercise on a motor-driven treadmill before and after 8–12 wk of training. Training consisted of working at 80% of maximal heart rate 1 h/day, 5 days/wk. Maximal O2 consumption (VO2max) increased 28% from 113.7 +/- 5.5 to 146.1 +/- 5.4 ml O2 X min-1 X kg-1, pre- to posttraining. This increase in VO2max was due primarily to a 27% increase in maximal cardiac output, since maximal arteriovenous O2 difference increased only 4% above pretraining values. Mean arterial pressure during maximal exercise did not change from pre- to posttraining, with the result that calculated systemic vascular resistance (SVR) decreased 20%. There were no training-induced changes in O2 consumption, cardiac output, arteriovenous O2 difference, mean arterial pressure, or SVR at any level of submaximal exercise. However, if post- and pretraining values are compared, heart rate was lower and stroke volume was greater at any level of submaximal exercise. Venous lactate concentrations during a given level of submaximal exercise were significantly lower during posttraining compared with pretraining, but venous lactate concentrations during maximal exercise did not change as a result of exercise training. These results indicate that a program of endurance training will produce a significant increase in VO2max in the foxhound. This increase in VO2max is similar to that reported previously for humans and rats but is derived primarily from central (stroke volume) changes rather than a combination of central and peripheral (O2 extraction) changes.


1996 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 266-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Raimondi ◽  
J. M. Legramante ◽  
F. Iellamo ◽  
S. Cassarino ◽  
G. Peruzzi

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that stimulation of thin fiber muscle afferents is capable of matching the cardiovascular and ventilatory responses. In 46 anesthetized rabbits, the central end of the gastrocnemius nerves was electrically stimulated at 3 [low-frequency stimulation (LFS)] and 100 Hz [high-frequency stimulation (HFS)]. Intensities up to 200 times motor threshold were used. LFS induced a decrease in both mean arterial pressure (-19.9 +/- 2.9%) and systemic vascular resistance (-23.9 +/- 3.2%) an increase in cardiac output (CO) (6.4 +/- 1.7%), stroke volume (7.3 +/- 3.0%) and pulmonary ventilation (VE) (26.7 +/- 2.3%); heart rate and central venous pressure were not changed significantly. HFS induced an increase in mean arterial pressure (11.1 +/- 4.9%), CO (15.8 +/- 5.4%), stroke volume (13.4 +/- 5.4%), and VE but no significant changes in heart rate, systemic vascular resistance and central venous pressure. In both response patterns, arterial and end-tidal CO2 did not change significantly. The patterns of cardiorespiratory responses to both LFS and HFS were characterized by an increase in Co and VE without concomitant decreases in arterial and end-tidal PCO2 (isocapnic hyperpnea).


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