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17.02.2017 | What's New in Intensive Care
Ten reasons for performing hemodynamic monitoring using transesophageal echocardiography
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Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 7/2017
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Excerpt
Echocardiography is increasingly used in the intensive care unit (ICU) as a diagnostic imaging modality and for discontinuous hemodynamic monitoring [
1]. A recent large American data-based study reported that echocardiography may have a prognostic impact in different clinical fields, such as sepsis [
2]. Critical care echocardiography mainly relies on surface examination, whereas transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is markedly less frequently performed in most ICUs [
3]. Nevertheless, TEE shares most of the key properties defining an “ideal” hemodynamic monitoring system [
4]. We herein describe 10 good reasons for using TEE to monitor hemodynamics in unstable ventilated patients. …