Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography in Pediatric Congenital Cardiac Surgery: A Two-Center Observational Study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1275-1282

  Bettex, Dominique A ^a   Schmidlin, Daniel ^b   Bernath, Marc André ^b   Prêtre, René ^b   Hurni, Michel ^b   Jenni, Rolf ^b   Chassot, Pierre Guy ^b   Schmid, Edith R ^b  

^a Div of Cardiovascular Anesthesia   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142150289     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000081794.31004.18     Document Type: Article

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