Preoperative transthoracic echocardiography: When is it useful?

International Anesthesiology Clinics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1-10

  O'Halloran, T David ^a,b   Kannam, Joseph P ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; LIVER GRAFT; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC DYSFUNCTION; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 42249099212     PISSN: 00205907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AIA.0b013e31816f128a     Document Type: Review

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