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Transesophageal Echocardiography in Noncardiac Thoracic Surgery

2012; Elsevier BV; Volume: 30; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.anclin.2012.08.007

2210-3538

Breandan Sullivan, Ferenc Puskás, Ana Fernandez-Bustamante,

Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes

In high-risk surgeries with medically complicated patients, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) adds an additional level of monitoring with which few can disagree. This article presents multiple applications of TEE that can assist both the anesthesiologist and the surgeon through major noncardiac thoracic surgery. It highlights how TEE can be used as an adjuvant to lung resection surgery; TEE as a monitor during lung transplantation; TEE to assess patients for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; TEE for thoracic aortic surgery; and TEE in the assessment of patients with acute pulmonary hypertension undergoing noncardiac thoracic surgery.