Effects of acute ischemia and its components on the safety factor of conduction: a simulation study

• Published in: Computers in Cardiology, 2005 pp. 877 - 879
• Main Authors: Romero, L., Ferrero, J.M., Trenor, B., Saiz, J.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2005
• Subjects: Biomedical engineering; Biomembranes; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Extracellular; Fibrillation; Ischemic pain; Myocardium; Safety; Technological innovation
• ISBN: 0780393376; 9780780393370
• ISSN: 0276-6574; 2325-8853
• DOI: 10.1109/CIC.2005.1588245

In this work, we have studied the changes that acute myocardial ischemia exerts in our formulation of the safety factor of conduction (SF m ) which consists on a modification of the SF proposed by Shaw and Rudy. Specifically, the effect of each component of ischemia (hyperkalemia, hypoxia and acidosis) was studied separately, and also the evolution of the SF m after the onset of ischemia was obtained. The results show that a) the three components of ischemia tend to reduce SF m (except mild hyperkalemia), with strong hyperkalemia being the most important one and with hypoxia playing a mayor role only at high extracellular K concentration ([K + ]o), and b) the SF m decreases continuously as ischemia progresses