Publisher's Synopsis
This well-illustrated text on transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) procedures emphasizes physical science, instrumentation, and clinical uses. It includes the surgeon's perspective so that anesthesiologists can be better prepared to meet the surgeon's exact needs for information to be derived from TEE. This book is the ideal study tool for the TEE exam. Transesophageal echocardiography is the imaging method of using ultrasound to "look at" the heart and great vessel where the probe, or transducer, is placed in the esophagus of the patient. TEE is needed intraoperatively to answer specific surgical questions that are different to the ones answered by the cardiologist preoperatively. This unique book instructs anesthesiologists on how to use TEE to answer those questions. It includes technical information teaching anesthesiologist echocardiographers how to direct the TEE probe to obtain the images, how to find the necessary information, and how to interpret the information for the surgeon. Edited by both an anesthesiologist and a cardiologist, this is the only text that provides anesthesiologists with the information they need to become experts in TEE.
