Using Heart Rate Variability for outcome prediction
Heart rate variability is finding utility in a number of clinical areas, from training athletes and detecting fatigue,to predicting sepsis and trauma outcomes. This has been made possible by increasing access to the requisite high frequency ECG signals from which accurate instantaneous heart rate and thus beat-to-beat variability can be derived. At Datarwe we are already working on using measures of HRV to help predict outcomes from severe acquired brain injuries (such as trauma, and sub-arachnoid haemorrhage), and are continuing to collect data across other diagnosis areas to further examine the additional utility of this measurement in determining treatment and outcomes in the critically ill.