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Changes in cardiac autonomic activity during intracranial pressure plateau waves in patients with traumatic brain injury

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank all staff of the Neurosciences Critical Care Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK, for their support and professional cooperation. MMT was supported by a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Michael Smith foreign supplement travel grant. JD was supported through a Woolf Fisher scholarship. FAZ was supported through the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship, the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada—Harry S. Morton Travelling Fellowship in Surgery and the University of Manitoba Clinician Investigator Program.

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  1. Centre for Heart, Lung, and Vascular Health, School of Health and Exercise Science, Faculty of Health and Social Development, University of British Columbia, Okanagan 3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada

    Michael M. Tymko

  2. Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

    Joseph Donnelly, Peter Smielewski & Marek Czosnyka

  3. Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Frederick A. Zeiler

  4. Department of Surgery, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Frederick A. Zeiler

  5. Clinician Investigator Program, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Frederick A. Zeiler

  6. Department of Neurology, St. John’s Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, Austria

    Marek Sykora

  7. Faculty of Medicine, University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany

    Christina Haubrich

  8. Unité de Neurologie Vasculaire, Département de Neurologie, CHU de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

    Nathalie Nasr

  9. INSERM U1048, Team 08 (I2MC-Toulouse), Université de Toulouse III, Toulouse, France

    Nathalie Nasr

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MMT, JD and MC were responsible for conception and design of the current study. All authors contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the data and drafted the article or critically revised it for important intellectual content. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript, and all person designated as authors qualify for authorship. All those who qualify for authorship are listed.

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Tymko, M.M., Donnelly, J., Smielewski, P. et al. Changes in cardiac autonomic activity during intracranial pressure plateau waves in patients with traumatic brain injury. Clin Auton Res 29, 123–126 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10286-018-0579-y

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