Heart rate dynamics after acute cocaine administration.
We examined heart rate (HR) patterns after a bolus intravenous (i.v.) administration of a high (10 mg/kg) dose of cocaine in unrestrained cats. Mean R-R intervals, SD, and other measures of variability were assessed in three periods: waking baseline, early postcocaine administration, and later recovery periods. Cocaine resulted in initial tachycardia and reduced HR variability. This reduction in variability was independent of changes in the average rate: during the recovery period, HR returned to baseline values, but the reduced variability persisted. Nonlinear methods of assessment yielded additional results: Cocaine introduces a high correlation between one beat and the next and a tendency for cardiac accelerations to be followed immediately by decelerations and vice versa. The overall effect of the drug is to restrict deviation from a fixed rate.[1]References
- Heart rate dynamics after acute cocaine administration. Garfinkel, A., Raetz, S.L., Harper, R.M. J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. (1992) [Pubmed]
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