Are normal echocardiographic values obtained by transthoracic echocardiography in awake patients suitable for evaluation of cardiac function in anesthetized and mechanically ventilated patients?

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1701-

  Michaux, Isabelle ^a   Filipovic, Miodrag ^b   Seeberger, Manfred ^b   Skarvan, Karl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART FUNCTION; INTERMITTENT POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; LETTER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VENTILATED PATIENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; WAKEFULNESS;

ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 70350741518     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181b54a56     Document Type: Letter

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