Key result
Transesophageal echocardiography is a valuable intraoperative diagnostic tool in non-cardiac surgery for assessing hemodynamics, volume status, and detecting complications like venous air embolism.
TEE is an emerging and valuable tool for anesthesiologists during non-cardiac surgery, with five basic views providing critical intraoperative information.
May support selective TEE use in non-cardiac surgery; hypothesis-generating pending prospective trials.
Two dimensional echocardiography of the heart gives the accurate dimensions of cardiac anatomical structures. In addition, Doppler effect by virtue of measuring blood velocity gives critical information regarding functioning of the heart (cardiac output and flow across cardiac valves). Trans-esophageal echocardiography (TEE) has revolutionized surgical and anesthetic management in patients undergoing cardiac surgery ever since its introduction in 1980s, but its intraoperative utility in non-cardiac surgery is a new emergent dimension. We review here, the nascent and lesser studied use of TEE in patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery, concentrating on five basic views which can be rapidly viewed even by lesser trained anesthesiologists in the learning curve to provide valuable information requisite for non cardiac surgery.
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Shagun Bhatia Shah (2015) conducted a review in Non-cardiac surgery. Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) was evaluated. Transesophageal echocardiography is a valuable intraoperative diagnostic tool in non-cardiac surgery for assessing hemodynamics, volume status, and detecting complications like venous air embolism.