Focused intraoperative transthoracic echocardiography by anesthesiologists:A feasibility study

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 490-496

  Kratz, T ^a,b   Campo Dell'Orto, M ^c   Exner, M ^a   Timmesfeld, N ^a   Zoremba, M ^a   Wulf, H ^a   Steinfeldt, T ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b Service d'anesthésiologie Clinique Bénigne Joly   (France)

^c Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Heart diseases; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

CISATRACURIUM; DESFLURANE; FENTANYL; PROPOFOL; SUFENTANIL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTRAVENOUS ANESTHESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PORTABLE ULTRASOUND SCANNER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AGED; ANESTHESIOLOGIST; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; INTRAOPERATIVE MONITORING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIOLOGISTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84929741503     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: 18271596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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