Diagnostic and therapeutic implications of transesophageal echocardiography in medical ICU patients with unexplained shock, hypoxemia, or suspected endocarditis

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 916-922

  Slama, M A ^a   Novara, A ^b   Van De Putte, P ^c   Diebold, B ^b   Safavian, A ^b   Safar, M ^b   Ossart, M ^a   Fagon, J Y ^b  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL BROUSSAIS   (France)

^c Hôpital Saint Jean   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Critical care; Echocardiography; Endocarditis; Hemodynamics; Hypoxemia; Intensive care unit; Shock; Therapy; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography; Ventricular function

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART SURGERY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; SHOCK; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0029825154     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02044116     Document Type: Article

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