Impact of Critical Care Transesophageal Echocardiography in Medical–Surgical ICU Patients: Characteristics and Results From 274 Consecutive Examinations

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Abstract

Critical care echocardiography has become an integral tool in the assessment and management of critically ill patients. Critical care transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) offers diagnostic reliability, superior image quality, and an expanded diagnostic scope to transthoracic echocardiography. Despite its favorable attributes, TEE use in North American intensive care units (ICUs) remains relatively undescribed. In this article, we seek to characterize the feasibility, indications, and clinical impact of a critical care TEE program.

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Title: Journal of Intensive Care Medicine

Abbreviated Title: J Intensive Care Med

Publisher: SAGE Publications

ISSN (Print): 0885-0666

ISSN (Electronic): 1525-1489

Publication date Created: September 06 2018

Publication date (Electronic): September 06 2018

Page: 088506661879727

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[1 ]Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

[2 ]Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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DOI: 10.1177/0885066618797271

PubMed ID: 30189783

SO-VID: 3f0f1bf3-0b4e-464c-afcb-a14043a99233

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