Feasibility of Transesophageal Echocardiography with a Ten-French Monoplane Probe

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 682-687

  Orsini, Alexander N ^a   Kolias, Theodore J ^a   Strelich, Katherine R ^a   Armstrong, William F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; BENZOCAINE; LIDOCAINE;

ACCURACY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MECHANICAL PROBE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAFETY; STANDARD; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA;

ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; CATHETERIZATION; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS;

EID: 0042911794     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(03)00177-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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