Emergent bedside real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography in a patient with cardiac arrest following a caesarean section

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Wei, Jeng ^a   Yang, Hou Sheng ^a   Tsai, Shen Kou ^a   Hsiung, Ming C ^a   Chang, Chung Yi ^a   Ou, Ching Huei ^a   Chang, Yi Cheng ^a   Lee, Kuo Chen ^a   Sue, Sung How ^a   Chou, Yi Pen ^a  

^a CHENG HSIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

3D TEE; Caesarean section; Pulmonary embolism; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; CONVULSION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RESUSCITATION; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENA CAVA FILTER;

ADULT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952600263     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jeq161     Document Type: Article

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