title: [Medical device Task Force Monitor in diagnostics of syncope by means of head-up tilt table testing].
abstract: Head-up tilt table testing is used for diagnostics of vasovagal syncope. Beat-to-beat blood pressure recording and ECG monitoring is not sufficient for clarification of the syncope mechanisms in individual patients, however. That is why a Task Force Monitor was developed in Graz, Austria. In addition this device enables stroke volume recording by impedance method. Other advantages are calculations of cardiac output, beat-to-beat total peripheral resistance, heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity as well as activity ofsympathicus and parasympathicus assessment. These methods enable detailed hemodynamic analysis during the whole head-up tilt testing duration, the moment of syncope including.
authors.affiliation: Klinika funkcní diagnostiky a rehabilitace Lekarské fakulty MU a FN u sv. Anny, Brno. jarmila.siegelova@fnusa.cz
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Siegelová
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Fiser
mesh_terms: D017704:Baroreflex; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019462:Syncope, Vasovagal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D018667:Tilt-Table Test