Multicenter experience using a new prototype transnasal transesophageal echocardiography probe

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 811-817

  Spencer, Kirk T ^a   Goldman, Martin ^b   Cholley, Bernard ^c   Hultman, Jan ^d   Benjamin, Ernest ^b   Oropello, John ^b   Harris, Kevin M ^e   Bednarz, James ^a   Manasia, Anthony ^b   Leibowitz, Andrew ^b   Connor, Brian ^f   Lang, Roberto M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Intensive care; Monitoring; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTUBATION; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032713233     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00133.x     Document Type: Article

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