The Effect of Massage Therapy on Autonomic Activity in Critically Ill Children

Table 2

Heart rate variability and pediatric logistic organ dysfunction scores.

HF + LF, ms^2/Hz		Age	Gender	Diagnosis (subject number)	PELOD scores
>100	700.98	2.5 y	F	Pneumonia, respiratory distress	0
	534.14	2.5 y	M	Postoperation (frontal lobe tumor)	0
	233.88	2.5 y	M	Pneumonia, respiratory distress	0
	222	8 m	M	RSV bronchiolitis	0
10–100	68.44	5 m	M	Stridor	0
	64.78	2.5 y	M	Pneumonia	0
	56.2	8 y	M	Pectus excavatum repair	0
	46.21	10 m	M	Respiratory infection, congenital heart disease	0
	42.01	8 m	M	Pulmonary hypoplasia plus upper gastrointestinal bleeding	0
	32.23	2.5 y	F	Pneumonia	0
	36.71	14 y	M	Burns	0
	10.58	2 m	M	RSV bronchiolitis	0
1–10	7.26	2.5 y	M	Trauma	1
	2.63	2.5 y	F	Status epilepticus	0
	1.3	17 y	F	Sepsis shock, presumed pyelonephritis, and vesicoureteral reflux	10
<0.1	0.73	6 y	F	Acute renal failure, sepsis shock, and respiratory distress	10
	0.3	5 y	F	Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, septic shock	20
	0.09	12 y	F	Acute myeloid leukemia, E. coli sepsis	12

PELOD scores: Pediatric Logistic Organ Dysfunction scores; HF + LF: high and low frequency power of heart rate variability.