The role of transesophageal echocardiography in the intraoperative period

Current Cardiology Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 184-196

  Gouveia, Verónica ^a   Marcelino, Paulo ^c   Reuter, Daniel A ^b  

^a Klinikum Itzehoe   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c CEDOC   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hemodynamic monitoring; Intraoperative; Non cardiac surgery; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA FLOW; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDEMA; FLUID THERAPY; HEART AFTERLOAD; HEART FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MITRAL VALVE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; ORGAN PERFUSION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; PULSE PRESSURE; REVIEW; SURGICAL PATIENT; THERMODILUTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASCULAR SURGERY; WEIGHT GAIN;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 82055176926     PISSN: 1573403X     EISSN: 18756557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340311798220511     Document Type: Review

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