The impact of routine Trans-oesophageal Echocardiography (TOE) in cardiac surgery

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Anaesthesiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 263-271

  Desjardins, Georges ^a,b   Cahalan, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

anaesthesiology; cardiac surgical procedures; intra operative care; Trans oesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIST; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA SURGERY; AORTOGRAPHY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG EMBOLISM; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGEON; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 69849114704     PISSN: 15216896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2009.02.007     Document Type: Review

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