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Table 3 Procedures for measurement, processing and reporting of HRV

From: Heart rate variability in critical care medicine: a systematic review

Author

Year

Recording protocol (duration/position/time)

Monitor

Sampling frequency (Hz)

Management of artefact

Data presented

Annane

1999

5 min/–/–

PRV

500

Interpolation

TP, LF, HF, LF/HF, Lfnu, Hfnu

Korach

2001

30 min supine/0800–1200

ECG

5

Interpolation

Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Barnaby

2002

5 min/–/–

ECG

–

Interpolation

TP, LF, HF, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Pontet

2003

10 min/supine/2100–2300

ECG

>500

Interpolation

SDNN, RMSSD, LF, HF, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Shen

2003

90 min/semi recumbent/1000–1400

ECG

–

Interpolation

TP, LnLF, LnHF, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Schmidt

2005

24 hours

ECG

256

Interpolation

SDNN, SDANN, RMSSD, pNN50, VLF, LF, HF, LF/HF

Papaioannou

2006

10 min/supine/morning

ECG

250

Segment selection

LF/HF

Bourgault

2006

20 min/–/day and night

ECG

1000

–

LF, HF, LF/HF, TP

Chen

2007

10 min/supine/day and night

ECG

–

Interpolation

RMSSD, TP, LF, HF, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Passariello

2007

24 h

ECG

–

–

SDNN, SDANN, pNN50, RMSSD

Chen

2008

10 min/supine/day and night

ECG

–

Interpolation

SDNN, RMSSD, TP, LF, HF, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Aboab

2008

5 min/supine/–

PRV

–

Interpolation

TP, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Nogueira

2008

30 min/supine/morning

ECG

–

–

LF, HF, LF/HF

Papaioannou

2009

10 min/–/–

ECG

250

Segment selection

SDNN, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Tiainen

2009

24 h

ECG

–

–

SDNN, SDANN, TP, LF, HF,

Schmidt

2010

24 h

ECG

256

Interpolation

LnTP, LnVLF, LnHF, LnLF, LF/HF

Kasaoka

2010

5 min/supine/–

ECG

–

–

LnLF, LnHF, LF/HF

Chen

2012

10 min/supine/day and night

ECG

–

Interpolation

SDNN, TP, VLF, LF, HF, Hfnu, Lfnu, LF/HF

Gomez Duque

2012

24 h

ECG

–

–

SDNN, PNN50

Brown

2013

6 h/–/–

ECG

500

Deletion

SDNN, pNN50, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Green

2013

24 h

ECG

125

Deletion

SDNN, RMSSD, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Wieske

2013

5 min/–/–

ECG

250

Interpolation

HR, TP, LF/HF

Wieske

2013

5 min/supine/–

ECG

250

Deletion

LF, HF, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Bradley

2013

24 h

ECG

125

Deletion

SDNN, RMSSD, LF, HF, LF/HF

Huang

2014

5 min/semi-recumbent/0800–1200

ECG

–

–

LnTP, LnVLF, Hfnu, Lfnu, LF/HF

Tang

2014

60 min/–/–

ECH

512

–

SDNN, RMSSD, LF, HF, LF/HF

Zhang

2014

5 min/–/0900–1100

ECG

–

Deletion

SDNN, RMSSD, TP, VLF, LF, HF, Lfnu, Hfnu, LF/HF

Schmidt

2014

24 h

ECG

256

Interpolation

SDNN, SDANN, SDNNi, RMSSD, pNN50, VLF, LF, HF, LnLF, LnHF, LF/HF

Zaal

2015

15 min/supine, 0800–1700

ECG

500

Segment selection

LnLF, LnHF, Hfnu, LF/HF

Hammash

2015

24 h

ECG

–

Interpolation

VLF, HF, LF

Nagaraj

2016

24 h (5 min epochs)

ECG

240

Thresholding

SDNN, RMSSD, VLF, LF, HF, LF/HF, LFnu, HFnu

  1. ECG electrocardiogram, HF high frequency, HFnu high frequency normalised unit, LF low frequency, LFnu low frequency normalised unit, Ln natural logarithm, pNN50 percentage of normal–normal intervals >50 ms, PRV pulse rate variability, RMSSD root mean square of successive differences, SDANN standard deviation of average normal–normal intervals, SDNN standard deviation of normal–normal intervals, TP total power