| Title | Heart rate variability. | ||
| Author | Kamen, P | ||
| Journal | Aust Fam Physician | Publication Year/Month | 1996-Jul |
| PMID | 8768275 | PMCID | -N/A- |
| Affiliation | 1.Department of Cardiology. Austin and Repatriation Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia. | ||
Heart rate variability (HRV) provides a non-invasive means of quantifying cardiac autonomic activity. It has been shown to be a powerful predictor of arrhythmia related complications in patients surviving the acute phase of myocardial infarction. This article highlights some of the important new clinical applications of this technology and provides a brief description of the technical methods involved in gathering and interpreting the data.