RT Book, Section
A1 Lauer, Ryan E.
A1 Mathew, Joseph P.
A2 Mathew, Joseph P.
A2 Nicoara, Alina
A2 Ayoub, Chakib M.
A2 Swaminathan, Madhav
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ID 1171725146
T1 Transesophageal Tomographic Views
T2 Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 3e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071830232
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1171725146
RD 2024/04/16
AB Transesophageal  echocardiography  (TEE)  training  and  certification  have  become  standardized  with  the  use  of  recognized  nomenclature  and  tomographic  views.1  A  consistent  nomenclature  has  the  advantage  of  not  only  facilitating  communication  between  physicians  but  also  promoting  the  performance  of  comprehensive  examinations.  Familiarity  with  standard  views  enables  the  echocardiographer  to  detect  abnormalities  more  readily  and  compare  sequential  images.  However,  in  some  patients,  it  may  not  be  possible  to  obtain  a  complete  set  of  two-dimensional  views  because  of  time  constraints  or  because  the  patient's  body  habitus  or  anatomy  impedes  the  ability  to  develop  the  appropriate  imaging  planes.  With  practice,  a  complete  TEE  examination  generally  can  be  performed  in  10  minutes  or  less,  with  images  recorded  and  archived  in  a  digital  format.  A  written  report  should  then  be  generated  as  part  of  the  patient's  medical  record  (see  Chapter  26).  Recommendations  presented  in  this  chapter  primarily  pertain  to  the  widely  available  TEE  equipment,  which  permits  multiplane  two-dimensional  imaging.  Standardized  recommendations  for  three-dimensional  (3D)  imaging  are  also  available  and  are  discussed  in  Chapter  23.1