Short-term heart-rate variability in healthy small and medium-sized dogs over a five-minute measuring period

Abstract

Five-minute heart-rate variability (HRV) measurement is a useful tool for assessing the autonomic nervous system (ANS) balance in humans, but there are no studies on healthy dogs. The aim of the study was, therefore, to provide the reference ranges in small and medium-sized breeds for short-term HRV time and frequency domain (TFD) analyses.

Keywords

• dog
• heart-rate variability
• frequency domain
• time domain