Routine use of transoesophageal echocardiography - Does it improve outcome in cardiac surgery patients?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 4-12

  Poelaert, Jan I T ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISSECTION; COMPETENCE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030907760     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001503-199702000-00005     Document Type: Review

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