A Practical Approach to Transesophageal Echocardiography (Blueprints Series)

A Practical Approach to Transesophageal Echocardiography, Second Edition, offers a concise and intensely illustrated guide to the current practice of perioperative TEE. Anesthesiology and cardiology attendings, fellows, and residents will find this an indispensable resource to the physics, examination protocols, and practice pitfalls of TEE. Now completely updated for this Second Edition, this bench reference includes: Practice-oriented content that reveals the clinical approaches of internationally recognized expert echocardiographers in the disciplines of anesthesiology, cardiology, and cardiothoracic surgery. The format provides concise, clinically relevant examination sequences to assess both the severity of disease and the postoperative success of a variety of valvular, CABG, and congenital heart surgeries. The expanding uses of TEE to assist and evaluate surgical procedures are widely addressed. Hemodynamic assessments and quantitative measurements derived from Doppler studies are detailed throughout. Expanded reference tables provide an easily accessible resource for accurately assessing the severity of valvular disease and the functioning of prosthetic valves, and for quantifying hemodynamics and cardiac dimensions. The text is intensely illustrated with digitally processed echocardiographic images and full color illustrations for exceptional clarity. An insiders "tell-all" of techniques and tricks utilized by experts to obtain difficult images, optimize Doppler examinations, and recognize image artifacts and cardiac masses. Designed in a portable format, A Practical Approach to Transesophageal Echocardiography, Second Edition, serves as a comprehensive and current reference easily carried into the operating room and clinical environments. Book jacket.