Transesophageal echocardiography is increasingly valuable for anesthesiologists in evaluating mitral valve disease, hemodynamics during CABG, minimally invasive surgery, and congenital heart surgery.
Supports expanded TEE training in cardiac anesthesia; leaves open prospective outcome validation.
Anesthesiologists are increasingly using transesophageal echocardiography in both cardiac and noncardiac cases. In cardiac anesthesia, considerable progress has been made in the evaluation of mitral valvular disease. Transesophageal echocardiography has also become more useful in the hemodynamic evaluation of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. It is particularly valuable in minimally invasive surgery and in heart surgery to correct congenital defects.
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