Esophageal Overtube Facilitation of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Patients with Previously Difficult Esophageal Intubation

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 285-289

  Reuss, Christina S ^a   Triester, Stuart L ^a   Lynch, John J ^a   Heigh, Russell I ^a   Fleischer, David E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZOCAINE; LIDOCAINE; WARFARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BARIUM ENEMA; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGEAL OVERTUBE; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS INTUBATION; ESOPHAGUS TUBE; ESOPHAGUS WEB; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROSCOPE; GASTROSCOPY; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SAFETY; SLURRED SPEECH; SYMPTOM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MALE;

EID: 33847284943     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.08.012     Document Type: Article

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