Clinical Guide to Cardiac Autonomic Tests

Following systematic development of technical aspects and physiological understanding, and clinical applicability of cardiac autonomic testing, this book provides a detailed guide to performing individual autonomic tests in both research and clinical settings.
The book is structured in three parts covering the physiological background of cardiac autonomic regulations, description of technology and interpretation of individual autonomic tests, and applicability of the individual tests under various clinical circumstances and in defined populations of patients.
The book is intended to serve both research and clinical cardiologists as well as research and clinical specialists of other medical fields who use the assessment of cardiac modulations to investigate the autonomic nervous system.

Inhalt
One: Physiology.- I Physiology of the cardiac autonomic system.- II Pathophysiology of cardiac autonomic disorders.- Two: Autonomic Tests.- III Basic autonomic tests.- IV Tilt table testing.- V Autonomic responses to blockades and provocations.- VI Short-term measurement of heart rate variability.- VII Physiological interpretation of spectral components of heart rate variability.- VIII Long-term measurement of heart rate variability.- IX Neural recordings in the assessment of cardiac autonomic balance.- X Assessment of baroreflex sensitivity.- Three: Clinical Practice.- XI Ageing and cardiac autonomic status.- XII Concomitant therapy and autonomic tests.- XIII Influence of smoking, alcohol, caffeine and recreational drugs on cardiac autonomic tests.- XIV Cardiac autonomic syndromes.- XV Clinical perspective.