title: Symbolic dynamic analysis of relations between cardiac and breathing cycles in patients on weaning trials.
abstract: Traditional time-domain techniques of data analysis are often not sufficient to characterize the complex dynamics of the cardiorespiratory interdependencies during the weaning trials. In this paper, the interactions between the heart rate (HR) and the breathing rate (BR) were studied using joint symbolic dynamic analysis. A total of 133 patients on weaning trials from mechanical ventilation were analyzed: 94 patients with successful weaning (group S) and 39 patients that failed to maintain spontaneous breathing (group F). The word distribution matrix enabled a coarse-grained quantitative assessment of short-term nonlinear analysis of the cardiorespiratory interactions. The histogram of the occurrence probability of the cardiorespiratory words presented a higher homogeneity in group F than in group S, measured with a higher number of forbidden words in group S as well as a higher number of words whose probability of occurrence is higher than a probability threshold in group S. The discriminant analysis revealed the best results when applying symbolic dynamic variables. Therefore, we hypothesize that joint symbolic dynamic analysis provides enhanced information about different interactions between HR and BR, when comparing patients with successful weaning and patients that failed to maintain spontaneous breathing in the weaning procedure.
authors.affiliation: Departament ESAII, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Pau Gargallo, 5, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Caminal
authors.forename: B F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Giraldo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vallverdú
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Benito
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schroeder
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Voss
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004562:Electrocardiography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011336:Probability; D012106:Research; D012119:Respiration; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000379:methods*
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