Does routine monitoring with TEE or 12-lead ECG improve the identification of patients at high risk for perioperative ischemic outcomes in noncardiac surgery?
Routine intraoperative monitoring with TEE or 12-lead ECG does not provide significant incremental value over standard clinical data and 2-lead ECG for predicting perioperative ischemic outcomes in noncardiac surgery.
When compared with preoperative clinical data and intraoperative monitoring using two-lead ECG, routine monitoring for myocardial ischemia with TEE or 12-lead ECG during noncardiac surgery has little incremental clinical value in identifying patients at high risk for perioperative ischemic outcomes.
M.J. Eisenberg (Wed,) studied this question.