Cardiac baroreflex is a fundamental component of the cardiovascular control. The continuous assessment of baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) from spontaneous heart period (HP) and systolic arterial pressure (SAP) variations during general anesthesia provides relevant information about cardiovascular regulation in physiological conditions. Unfortunately, several difficulties including unknown HP-SAP causal relations, negligible SAP changes, small BRS values, and confounding influences due to mechanical ventilation prevent BRS monitoring from HP and SAP variabilities during general anesthesia. We applied a model-based causal closed-loop approach aiming at BRS assessment during propofol anesthesia in 34 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. We found the following: 1) traditional time and frequency domain approaches (i.e., baroreflex sequence, cross-correlation, spectral, and transfer function techniques) exhibited irremediable methodological limitations preventing the assessment of the BRS decrease during propofol anesthesia; 2) Granger causality approach proved that the methodological caveats were linked to the decreased presence of bidirectional closed-loop HP-SAP interactions and to the increased incidence of the HP-SAP uncoupling; 3) our model-based closed-loop approach detected the significant BRS decrease during propofol anesthesia as a likely result of accounting for the influences of mechanical ventilation and causal HP-SAP interactions; and 4) the model-based closed-loop approach found also a diminished gain of the relation from HP to SAP linked to vasodilatation and reduced ventricular contractility during propofol anesthesia. The proposed model-based causal closed-loop approach is more effective than traditional approaches in monitoring cardiovascular control during propofol anesthesia and indicates an overall depression of the HPSAP closed-loop regulation. Copyright

Model-based causal closed loop approach to the estimate of baroreflex sensitivity during propofol anesthesia in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft / A. Porta, V. Bari, T. Bassani, A. Marchi, V. Pistuddi, M. Ranucci. - In: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY. - ISSN 8750-7587. - 115:7(2013), pp. 1032-1042. [10.1152/japplphysiol.00537.2013]

Model-based causal closed loop approach to the estimate of baroreflex sensitivity during propofol anesthesia in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft

A. Porta;V. Bari;
2013

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Cardiac baroreflex is a fundamental component of the cardiovascular control. The continuous assessment of baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) from spontaneous heart period (HP) and systolic arterial pressure (SAP) variations during general anesthesia provides relevant information about cardiovascular regulation in physiological conditions. Unfortunately, several difficulties including unknown HP-SAP causal relations, negligible SAP changes, small BRS values, and confounding influences due to mechanical ventilation prevent BRS monitoring from HP and SAP variabilities during general anesthesia. We applied a model-based causal closed-loop approach aiming at BRS assessment during propofol anesthesia in 34 patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. We found the following: 1) traditional time and frequency domain approaches (i.e., baroreflex sequence, cross-correlation, spectral, and transfer function techniques) exhibited irremediable methodological limitations preventing the assessment of the BRS decrease during propofol anesthesia; 2) Granger causality approach proved that the methodological caveats were linked to the decreased presence of bidirectional closed-loop HP-SAP interactions and to the increased incidence of the HP-SAP uncoupling; 3) our model-based closed-loop approach detected the significant BRS decrease during propofol anesthesia as a likely result of accounting for the influences of mechanical ventilation and causal HP-SAP interactions; and 4) the model-based closed-loop approach found also a diminished gain of the relation from HP to SAP linked to vasodilatation and reduced ventricular contractility during propofol anesthesia. The proposed model-based causal closed-loop approach is more effective than traditional approaches in monitoring cardiovascular control during propofol anesthesia and indicates an overall depression of the HPSAP closed-loop regulation. Copyright
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2013
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