Therapeutic impact of intra-operative transoesophageal echocardiography during noncardiac surgery

Anaesthesia

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-9

  Hofer, C K ^a   Zollinger, A ^a   Rak, M ^b   Matter Ensner, S ^a   Klaghofer, R ^b   Pasch, Th ^b   Zalunardo, M P ^b  

^a TRIEMLI HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heart; Measurement techniques; transoesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR SURGERY; VISCERA;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS; VASODILATOR AGENTS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0345865598     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2004.03459.x     Document Type: Article

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