RT Book, Section
A1 Lauer, Ryan
A1 Mathew, Joseph P.
A2 Mathew, Joseph P.
A2 Swaminathan, Madhav
A2 Ayoub, Chakib M.
SR Print(0)
ID 6915962
T1 Chapter 5. Transesophageal Tomographic Views
T2 Clinical Manual and Review of Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2e
YR 2010
FD 2010
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-163476-2
LK accessanesthesiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6915962
RD 2024/04/24
AB Transesophageal  echocardiography  (TEE)  training  and  certification  have  become  standardized  with  the  use  of  recognized  nomenclature  and  tomographic  views.  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  spot  abnormalities  more  easily  and  compare  sequential  images.  However,  in  some  patients,  it  will  not  be  possible  to  obtain  a  complete  set  of  perfect  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  on  videotape  or,  preferably,  in  a  digital  format.  A  written  report  should  then  be  generated  as  part  of  the  patient's  medical  record  (see  Chapter  25).  Recommendations  presented  in  this  chapter  primarily  pertain  to  the  widely  available  TEE  equipment,  which  permits  multiplane  two-dimensional  imaging.  As  experience  with  the  newly  available  real-time  three-dimensional  (3D)  TEE  grows,  standardized  recommendations  are  sure  to  follow.