Heart Rate Variability During Sleep After Fast-track Surgery

Lene Krenk

Status: Completed

Conditions: Heart Rate Variablity

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01393236

H-2-2010-011a

Details and patient eligibility

About

Based on prior findings concerning sleep disturbances, in particular REM sleep disturbances, after fast-track hip and knee arthroplasty (H-2-2010-011) we performed a supplemental analysis of heart rate variablity after arousals during sleep. We compared preoperative and postoperative results.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria (for the control group):

• Age > 60 years

Exclusion criteria:

• surgery within the last 2 months
• known sleep disorder (eg. sleep apnea)
• daily beta blocker treatment
• daily dopamine treatment

This protocol only concentrates on the healthy controls for the patient described in H-2-2010-011.

Trial design

10 participants in 2 patient groups

patients

Description:

patient characteristics are specified in H-2-2010-011

controls

Description:

age matched to patients described in protocol H-2-2010-011