Periodic heart rate decelerations in premature infants

Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 17:25 in Health & Medicine

A normal healthy heart beats at a variable rate with extraordinarily complex fluctuations across a wide range of time scales. Reduced complexity of heart rate has both clinical and dynamical significance - it may provide warning of impending illness, or clues about the dynamics of the heart's pacemaking system.

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