Basic perioperative transesophageal echocardiography examination: A consensus statement of the american society of echocardiography and the society of cardiovascular anesthesiologists

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 543-558

  Reeves, Scott T ^a   Finley, Alan C ^a   Skubas, Nikolaos J ^b   Swaminathan, Madhav ^c   Whitley, William S ^e   Glas, Kathryn E ^e   Hahn, Rebecca T ^f   Shanewise, Jack S ^f   Adams, Mark S ^g   Shernan, Stanton K ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR EMBOLISM; ANESTHESIST; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BLOOD COMPONENT THERAPY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONSENSUS; CONSULTATION; CORONARY ARTERY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; IMAGE DISPLAY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MITRAL VALVE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SCOPE OF PRACTICE; THORAX INJURY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGY; CONSENSUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, AIR; HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84883705611     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3182a00616     Document Type: Article

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