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Summary: General Applications of Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Monitoring

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As the last chapter of the book, we summarize it by answering the question, “Why autonomic (P&S) assessment?” Included in the answer are discussions on proactive patient management, individualized therapy titration, documenting outcomes, evidence-based medicine, value-based medicine, comparative effectiveness benefit, PQRI documentation, and improved patient care, and we finish with a look at P&S monitoring in different specialties.

Keywords

  • Sleep Apnea
  • Mortality Risk
  • Improve Patient Outcome
  • Autonomic Dysfunction
  • Autonomic Neuropathy

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    American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Neurology, American Diabetes Association, American Heart Association, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.

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    At the time of publication, no editor has a financial relationship with the manufacturers of Carvedilol.

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  1. Autonomic Laboratory Department of Cardiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Joseph Colombo PhD

  2. ANSAR Medical Technologies, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Joseph Colombo PhD

  3. Department of Medicine, Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, North Chicago, IL, USA

    Rohit Arora MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FSCAI

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    Rohit Arora MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP, FSCAI

  5. Department of Cardiology, Hahnemann Hospital Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Nicholas L. DePace MD, FACC

  6. Department of Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School Strelitz Diabetes Research Center, Norfolk, VA, USA

    Aaron I. Vinik MD, PhD, FCP, MACP

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Colombo, J., Arora, R., DePace, N.L., Vinik, A.I. (2015). Summary: General Applications of Parasympathetic and Sympathetic Monitoring. In: Clinical Autonomic Dysfunction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07371-2_32

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