Journal
MEDICAL & BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING & COMPUTING
Volume 44, Issue 3, Pages 161-169Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-006-0037-1
Keywords
vagus nerve; vagal compound action potential; electrical stimulation; heart rate; closed-loop control
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Stimulation of the vagus nerve potentially decreases the risk of sudden cardiac death. An improvement of the technique would be its regulation using the heart rate (HR) as a feedback variable. We address the possibility of closed-loop control of the HR, focusing on the stimulation parameters, nerve fibre populations and the reproducibility of the cardiovascular response. The response to electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve was studied in seven acute experiments on pigs. Feedback regulation of the HR over periods of 5 min was carried out. Three main populations of myelinated fibres were found. The performance of the controller was significantly better at amplitudes higher than those needed for stimulation of the myelinated components only. A 18% change in the duration of the RR interval could be controlled in all experiments. The possibility of closed-loop control of the HR seems to be promising.
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