title: Heart rate characteristics in the NICU: what nurses need to know.
abstract: Late-onset sepsis continues to be a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in very low-birth-weight infants. Earlier detection of infection with heart rate variability monitoring through the use of the HeRO monitor has been shown to reduce mortality rate by 22%. This article reviews how HeRO is used to assist in earlier diagnosis and treatment of infection.
authors.affiliation: Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville.
authors.forename: Jamie H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Hicks
authors.forename: Karen D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Fairchild
mesh_terms: D064648:Critical Care Nursing / Q000379:methods; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D019102:Infant, Very Low Birth Weight; D015931:Intensive Care, Neonatal / Q000379:methods; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation; D017283:Neonatal Nursing / Q000379:methods; D018805:Sepsis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology