Skip to main content

Table 1 Overview of all features calculated in this study

From: Predicting deterioration of patients with early sepsis at the emergency department using continuous heart rate variability analysis: a model-based approach

Name

Description

AVNN

Average of the NN intervals

SDNN

Standard deviation of the NN intervals

RMSSD

Root mean square of successive differences

NN50

Number of NN intervals 50 ms

pNN50

Percentage of NN intervals 50 ms

CV

Coefficient of variation (SDNN divided by AVNN)

SampEn

Sample entropy

SD1

Standard deviation in the first direction of a Poincaré plot

SD2

Standard deviation in the second direction of a Poincaré plot

ULF

Ultra-low frequency power (bandwidth: < 0.003 Hz)

VLF

Very low frequency power (bandwidth: 0.0033–0.04 Hz)

LF

Low frequency power (bandwidth: 0.04–0.15 Hz)

HF

High frequency power (bandwidth: 0.15–0.4 Hz)

Total power

Total frequency power (sum of LF and HF)

LFnorm

LF normalized to total power

HFnorm

HF normalized to total power

LF/HF-ratio

Ratio of LF to HF

  1. The method to extract the features is described in [21]