Intraoperative Monitoring with Transesophageal Echocardiography: Indications, Risks, and Training

Anesthesiology Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 737-753

  Marymont, Jesse ^a   Murphy, Glenn S ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA VALVE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CERTIFICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC OBSTRUCTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMAL INJURY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33845369596     PISSN: 08898537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atc.2006.08.007     Document Type: Review

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