Heart rate variability and the reaction of heart rate to atropine in brain dead patients.
Heart rate variation and the atropine test as an expression of the bulbar parasympathetic activity might complete the clinical examination in the diagnosis of brain death, but are certainly unreliable as confirmatory tests.
Siemens
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Department of Medicine, University of Cologne.
Hilger
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Frowein
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D001285:Atropine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001926:Brain Death / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002319:Cardiovascular System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects*; D006801:Humans
D001285:Atropine