Practical Russian experience of using complex apparatus and programs for analysis of heart rate variability

Presents some results of the experience of using computerised rhythmocardiography (RCG) apparatus and heart rate variability analysis. This method and its equipment is used in 28 hospitals of the Ural region. The RCG data is comprised of more than 15 thousand RCGs from patients with different forms of cardiovascular disease. The results of this study show that RCG with heart rhythm wave structure analysis using the presented computerised apparatus may be used in practical medicine for nonspecific diagnostics of cardiovascular pathology. This method can decrease nondiagnostic cases of cardiovascular diseases and their complications.