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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2001, Vol. 86, No. 6 777-788
© 2001 The Board of Management and Trustees of the British Journal of Anaesthesia

Inspiratory timing during anaesthesia: a model of cardioventilatory coupling

D. C. Galletly and P. D. Larsen

Wellington School of Medicine, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand*Corresponding author

We describe a simple model of cardioventilatory coupling in which a hypothetical inspiratory pacemaker is stimulated by a signal related to cardiac action. At suitable values for the control variables (cardiac signal magnitude, heart rate, inspiratory pacemaker rate and inspiratory rate variability), the model was found to: (1) replicate all clinically described patterns of coupling; (2) predict variations in these described patterns and new patterns which were subsequently found in clinical time series; (3) simulate variations in clinically observed breathing frequency variations associated with each coupling pattern; (4) simulate the clinically observed distribution of coupling patterns between heart rate and breathing frequency; (5) explain the invariability of coupling below a critical heart rate/breathing frequency ratio; and (6) simulate the changes in breathing frequency and transitions between coupling patterns from the heart rate time series of human subjects. Although cardioventilatory coupling causes complex breathing rate irregularities during anaesthesia, these are readily explained by three variables, heart rate, intrinsic breathing frequency, and the strength of their interaction. This simple model, along with clinical observations of cardioventilatory coupling may provide a useful non-invasive method to study the respiratory central pattern generator.

Br J Anaesth 2001; 86: 777–88


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