HEART RATE PERIODICITIES DURING INDUCTION OF PROPOFOL-NITROUS OXIDE-ISOFLURANE ANAESTHESIA
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1 British Journal of Anaesthesia 1992; 68: HEART RATE PERIODICITIES DURING INDUCTION OF PROPOFOLNITROUS OXIDEISOFLURANE ANAESTHESIA D. C. GALLETLY, T. CORFIATIS, A. M. WESTENBERG AND B. J. ROBINSON SUMMARY This study examined the variation in cardiac interbeat interval during induction of anaesthesia with propofol and subsequent inhalation anaesthesia with nitrous oxide and isoflurane. In comparison with preoperative control values, heart rate variability was reduced by anaesthesia and there was a complex, but coistent, pattern of RR interval change during induction. Immediately after propofol 2 mg kg~\ high frequency heart rate oscillatio were replaced by low frequency oscillatio (0.05 Hz). Subsequently, with decreasing propofol and deepening nitrous oxideisoflurane anaesthesia, high frequency components returned towards, although not reaching, control values; low and, to a greater extent, mid range (0.1Hz) frequency components remained reduced. We postulate that these alteratio are coistent with an immediate but traient postinduction ventilator/ depression, subsequent decrease in efferent sympathetic activity and reduction in baroreflex respoiveness. RR interval analysis is suggested to be a useful tool in the evaluation of autonomic function during anaesthesia. KEY WORDS Anaesthetic techniques: induction. Anaesthetics, intravenous: propofol. Anaesthetics, volatile: isoflurane. Heart: RR interval analysis. The main determinants of heart rate are the sympathetic and parasympathetic efferent input to the atria! sinus pacemaker. Because this autonomic control is the product of complex feedback oscillatio within the cardiovascular pressure control system, and because of interacting periodicities caused by ventilation, autonomic activity at the sinoatrial node is changing cotantly. In coequence, heart rate shows a marked beattobeat variability. Although the full extent of this variability is unlikely to be appreciated from the averaged heart rate values given by standard operating room ECG monitoring systems, it is readily apparent if individual R R intervals are plotted agait time (fig. 1). In the past 5 10 years, important advances have increased our understanding of heart rate variability (HRV) and its possible clinical applicatio. Early time domain analyses (measures such as the mean or variance of HRV) have been supplemented by frequency domain analyses by which periodicities within the RR interval series are examined quantitatively using fast Fourier [1] and autoregressive methods of spectral analysis [2], and the interactio between different physiological variables are examined using trafer function analysis [3]. As a coequence, it has been demotrated that discrete Fourier spectral components of RR interval time series reflect different aspects of cardiovascular and autonomic control. At least three spectral components have been identified: two low frequency fluctuatio (< 0.15 Hz) reflecting aspects of arterial pressure control and a superimposed high frequency " ventilatory " component in phase with ventilation [4]. During anaesthesia, autonomic function is influenced by the effects of drugs and surgical stimulation in addition to changes in posture, temperature and blood volume. It would seem probable therefore that in addition to the gross alteratio in heart rate which are apparent from standard ECG monitoring systems, there may exist more subtle fluctuatio in RR interval variability characteristic of different techniques of anaesthesia and which reflect the changing state of autonomic and cardiorespiratory activity. In this study we have examined the effects of a standard general anaesthetic technique on die spectral components of RR interval variability and attempted to explain how such variability may be caused by known autonomic effects of the anaesthetic agents used. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 10 fasting, unpremedicated ASA I patients (mean age 26.4 yr, range 1835 yr; three male) undergoing urological or gynaecological surgery under general anaesthesia. None had any evidence of cardiac or respiratory pathology and none was taking regular medicatio. The study was approved by the regional Ethics Committee and all patients gave written informed coent. One hour before operation, a continuous 5min ECG (CM5) recording was made with the subject supine and resting quietly. The voltage output from die ECG monitor (HewlettPackard) was passed to a purpose built R wave detector which generated an D. C. GALLETLY, F.F.A.R.A.C.S., F.C.ANAES.J A. M. WESTENBERG, B.SC. ; B. J. ROBINSON, M.SC.; Section of Anaesthesia, Wellington School of Medicine, Private Bag Wellington, New Zealand. T. CORFIATIS, M.sc., Department of Physics, Victoria University, Wellington. Accepted for Publication: November 1, Downloaded from by guest on 03 November 2018
2 HEART RATE PERIODICITY Propofol 2 mg kg 1 90 _ 80 T _c E 70 llu 1.5 % isoflurane + nitrous oxide fif) Control Induction Postinduction FIG. 1. Heart rate (HR) variability during the preanaesthetic (control), induction and postinduction periods. accurate 50ms pulse synchronous with the peak of each R wave. The R wave was detected by half wave rectifying the electronically filtered (high pass to remove P and T waves) and differentiated ECG signal and passing this output to a peak detector which generated the 50ms pulse when the slope of the signal changed from positive to negative. This pulse was input to the parallel port of a microcomputer (IBMcompatible) which computed the interval between successive RR intervals and stored these as a series for later analysis. Anaesthesia was induced with propofol 2 mg kg" 1 over 15 s into an antecubital vein. A facemask was applied and patients breathed 66% nitrous oxide and 1.5 % isoflurane in oxygen via a circle absorption system. Traient apnoea was managed, if necessary, by gentle IPPV in order to maintain an oxygen saturation of > 95 %. An RR interval series was recorded throughout the induction sequence and for 15 min after induction, before the oet of surgical stimulation. Episodes of apnoea, IPPV and patient movement were recorded. Spectral analysis of HRV was performed using a method based on that of Akselrod and colleagues [5,6]. The raw RR series were examined for artefacts and any discrete, abnormal intervals caused by ectopic beats were removed using linear interpolation. Artefactfree, stationary segments of 128 s of RR interval data were then taken from the preoperative recording and from the final minutes of the postinduction recording while patients were breathing nitrous oxide and isoflurane. These segments were sampled at a rate of 4 Hz to produce a series of 512 (4x 128 s) discrete values of itantaneous heart rate. This heart rate series was then high pass filtered to remove fluctuatio less than Hz and low pass filtered at 2 Hz to remove components of greater than Nyquist frequency. A fast Fourier analysis was performed using a Harming window. The total spectral power (area under the curve) was normalized for the square of the heart rate and the proportion of this power calculated for three frequency ranges, chosen as representative of previously published work [1,5,79] because individual authors quote slightly different values for each frequency component: low frequency ("vasomotor"), Hz; mid frequency ("baroreflex"), Hz; high frequency ("ventilatory") Hz. The SD of the itantaneous heart rate series and total power were calculated as a measure of overall HRV. Differences in spectral power for the three frequency bands were analysed using Student's t test for paired data. Differences were coidered significant at P < Analysis was performed using a Statview II statistical package on an Apple Macintosh Ilex microcomputer. RESULTS Visual examination of the RR interval recordings showed a coistent pattern of HRV during the induction sequence. At least three phases were apparent (fig. 1). (1) Preinduction variability was replaced by a traient smooth acceleration in heart rate. The mean time to oet of this tachycardia was 22 (SEM 1.8) s after the end of propofol injection, with peak heart rate occurring at mean 35 (2.3) s. Heart rate then returned rapidly towards preinduction value. (2) Over the next approximately 3 min, the most frequent pattern was of a slow heart rate fluctuation. In six patients in whom this periodicity could be measured accurately over five or six peaks, the mean frequency was Hz (range Hz). (3) These low frequency fluctuatio in heart rate became less apparent as the high frequency (ventilatory) components returned and increased in amplitude over 510 min. A comparison of spectral components during the resting preoperative period with that 10 min after induction is shown in table I. During anaesthesia, although heart rate was unchanged, heart rate variability decreased. This reduction in HRV was seen as a decrease in total spectral power ( 59%) and, to a lesser extent, as a reduction in RR interval SD ( 21 %). The power in each of the three frequency bands decreased, although there was a greater reduction in the power of low and more especially the Downloaded from by guest on 03 November 2018
3 362 BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA TABLE I. Mean (SEM) values of HRV data before operation and 1015 min after the induction of propofol nitrous oxide isoflurane anaesthesia. Absolute power is given in arbitrary units. Proportional power is calculated as absolute power for each band divided by total power Preanaesthesia Anaesthesia Change (%) P V) unit ary biti 3 Power Control I HR (beat min" 1 ) HR SD (beat min 1 ) Total power Low Mid Low + medium (absolute) power High Ratio abs. power (Hi (Lo + Med)) Proportion of low Proportion of mid Proportion of high 1.2 i Anaesthesia (2.78) 4.05 (0.94) (0.058) (0.008) (0.01) 0.10(0.02) 0.157(0.045) 1.4(0.24) 0.22 (0.03) (0.025) (0.044) Frequency (Hz) Frequency (Hz) FIG. 2. Power spectrum of heart interval variability during the preoperative period (control) and during nitrous oxideisoflurane anaesthesia mid range frequency components when compared with the high frequency band. The proportion of the total spectral power within the high frequency band increased by 19 %, the mid band decreased by 43 % and the proportion of the power in the low band was unchanged. During anaesthesia, alteration in the morphology of the high frequency spectral component was apparent also, with the ventilatory peak becoming narrower and more clearly denned (fig. 2). This was coidered to reflect a decrease in the variability of ventilatory rhythm during inhalation anaesthesia. DISCUSSION We have observed that the recording of R R interval series during the induction of anaesthesia revealed a complex but coistent pattern of heart rate fluctuatio which are presumed to represent the interaction between the changing plasma concentratio of the anaesthetic agents with cardiovascular and ventilatory control mechanisms. Although a comparison of preoperative with intraanaesthetic RR interval series showed no significant difference when time domain analysis (heart rate and SD) were performed, differences were revealed clearly using spectral analysis (2.29) 3.21 (0.57) 0.107(0.018) (0.002) 0.014(0.002) 0.03 (0.01) (0.016) 2.1 (0.34) 0.217(0.028) 0.134(0.01) (0.032) In the normal human subject, at least three spectral components of HRV are described [1, 10]: (1) A low frequency component (centred between 0.04 and 0.08 Hz), is said to represent thermoregulatory fluctuatio in vasomotor tone [11] or compeatory baroreflex oscillatio in heart rate, for arterial pressure fluctuatio at the same frequency, which are caused by peripheral vasomotor variability, and which are normally damped by the renin angiotein system [5]. The cardiac efferent component is mediated by parasympathetic and betasympathetic activity and may be enhanced (or "undamped") by angiotein converting enzyme inhibitors [1,5]. (2) Mid range frequencies centred as 0.12 Hz (the "10s rhythm" or the Mayer waves of arterial pressure [12]) have been ascribed to the activity of a 10s brain stem oscillator and modulating effect of the baroreflex or its frequent respoe [13, 14]. In the supine position, the efferent control is predominantly parasympathetic, while a greater sympathetic component is present with standing or during tilt [10, 15, 16]. (3) High frequency components, in phase with ventilation, are ascribed to oscillating baroreflex respoiveness during breathing [17], a central coupling of respiratory generator and cardiac vagal efferents, a central vagal reflex arc stimulated by pulmonary stretch receptor activation and, since small fluctuatio still occur in denervated heart traplants and IPPV, changes in right ventricular preload and myocardial wall stretch [18]. The ventilatory component is thought to be controlled by parasympathetic vagal efferents (the sympathetic nervous system is too sluggish to operate at this high frequency) and, apart from small mechanically mediated fluctuatio, is abolished by atropine [15, 16]. Donchin, Feld and Porges [19], examining the effect of isofluranenitrous oxide anaesthesia on high frequency ( Hz) parasympathetic spectral components, observed a diminution of the ventilatory heart rate variability and related this to a reduction in vagal tone. These authors postulated that changes in high frequency variability might be Downloaded from by guest on 03 November 2018
4 HEART RATE PERIODICITY 363 used as a measure of depth of anaesthesia, although subsequent work from YliHankala and colleagues [20] found no relatiohip between anaesthetic depth and the ventilatory component of HRV for more than 1 MAC of isoflurane and enflurane. Two major effects of propofolisofluranenitrous oxide anaesthesia on HRV were observed in the present study. First, immediately after induction with propofol, high frequency "ventilatory" fluctuatio were almost abolished, being replaced by a low (0.056Hz) frequency heart rate periodicity. Second, after approximately 3 min, and presumably as the isoflurane nitrous oxide inhalation anaesthesia deepened and the initial effects of propofol decreased, the fast ventilatory component assumed an increasing dominance over the low and, more especially, the mid range frequencies; however, its absolute power returned only to approximately 50 % of the preoperative control value. In comparison with the unanaesthetized state, there was an overall reduction in HRV, seen as a reduction in total spectral power. The initial acceleration in heart rate after propofol occurred at approximately the same time as the oet of CNS depression and within one arm brain circulation time. This acceleration may be a result of a parasympathetic, sympathetic or direct sinoatrial node action. Subsequent, low frequency waves at 0.05 Hz (with a period of 18 s) are too fast to be caused by recirculation and therefore are most likely to be the low frequency components of the cardiovascular control system. The dominance of these low frequency waves immediately following propofol could come about through a number of mechanisms. First, it is probable that the "ventilatory" high frequencies are so markedly depressed that normal background low frequency components are unmasked. Such high frequency depression may have been caused by: (1) A parasympatholytic effect of propofol reducing vagal efferent activity. Although this is supported by animal studies, in which a dosedependent reduction in the vagal component of the baroreflex arc has been demotrated [21] and would explain the observed initial tachycardia, in huma such an effect of propofol has not been shown [22]. Furthermore, at times when low frequencies dominate the Fourier spectrum in the period immediately after induction, the heart rate in some patients was little different from preinduction values. (2) Reduced ventilatory depth or effort after propofol injection. Ventilatory depression is a traient but well described feature of propofol induction. In cocious subjects, a reduction in tidal volume is associated with a reduction in high frequency spectral energy and may, through a complex dynamic interaction, cause a corresponding increase in lower frequency components [18, 23, 24]. (3) Peripheral vascular dilatation or increased capacitance [2527] from propofol would be expected to reduce venous return and reduce the activity of atrial and arterial stretch receptors. This reduces the parasympathetic dominance of sinoatrial control and thereby reduces the parasympathetic ventilatory component of HRV. In addition to depression of ventilatory fluctuatio, it is also possible that the low frequency waves are increased by a sympathetically mediated respoe to sudden changes in capacitance induced by propofol [27]. Such an effect is observed in dogs during infusion of nitroglycerine [28] or haemorrhage [29]. These observatio might, therefore, be coistent with a peripheral vascular action of propofol [26]. During subsequent isofluranenitrous oxide inhalation, the power in all frequency bands was reduced compared with preoperative values. However, as a proportion of total spectral power, high frequency fluctuatio dominated over the mid frequencies and, to a lesser extent, over low frequency vasomotor activity. In addition to a return of normal ventilatory depth, the following mechanisms could help explain these changes: (1) The reduction in low and mid range frequencies during isoflurane anaesthesia might reflect both a relative decrease in adrenergic activity from a preoperative stressed condition and an absolute decrease in normal background sympathetic tone as anaesthesia deepened (isofluranenitrous oxide anaesthesia reduces efferent sympathetic activity by 56% at 1.0 MAC [30]). (2) Low and mid range frequencies are under the control of parasympathetic and sympathetic efferents; a reduction in vagal efferent activity (coistent with the ability of isoflurane to increase heart rate) could help explain the reduced low and mid range power and explain the smaller reduction in absolute power of the high frequency component. (3) Low and mid range frequency bands are baroreflex mediated. As isoflurane, as with all general anaesthetics, depresses baroreflex activity (30% depression at 1.0 MAC [31]), a corresponding reduction in these spectral components would be expected. Despite their diminution, however, at least one component (0.05Hz) remai active throughout the induction sequence and subsequent inhalation anaesthesia. This is coistent with other studies which have shown the presence of intact baroreflex sympathetic control under both isoflurane and propofol anaesthesia [21, 30, 32]. Because the baroreflex frequency (0.1 Hz) is depressed to a coiderably greater extent than vasomotor fluctuatio at 0.05 Hz, it is possible that the inhalation anaesthetic agents or residual effects of the propofol are in some way depressing the source of the "10s" baroreflex oscillator, while leaving intact the baroreflex mechanism itself. This preliminary study, examining the brief period of anaesthetic induction and deepening inhalation anaesthesia cannot reveal in detail the mechanisms that underlie the observed complexities of HRV. Under more steady state conditio, however, and with additional recording of ventilation and other cardiovascular indices, it is possible that HRV analysis could be a useful tool in the haemodynamic investigation of anaesthetic drugs. Previous reports on the cardiovascular actio of propofol have shown incoistent changes for heart rate in the first few minutes after bolus injection [23]. This is Downloaded from by guest on 03 November 2018
5 364 BRITISH JOURNAL OF ANAESTHESIA explained readily by examining the complex fluctuatio in HRV seen in figure 1, by researchers' use of ECG heart rate recorders which average multiple RR intervals and by the standard research procedure of averaging heart rates from the group of patients under study. Except for the period immediately after injection of propofol, clear differences between pre and intraanaesthetic heart rate series (which had the same average heart rate) were apparent only when spectral analysis was performed. Averaged heart rate measurements are, therefore, only an approximation to the underlying complexity of itantaneous heart rate. We therefore suggest that HRV spectral decomposition may be a valuable quantitative tool for the analysis of autonomic fluctuatio in awake and anaesthetized patients. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Mr T. Corfiatis is supported by grants from the Wellington Medical Research Foundation, the Kelvin Day Trust and the Wellington Anaesthesia Trust. 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