Understand the fundamental scientific principles and clinical applications of TEE in heart surgery.
Find the answers you need quickly with handy hints highlighted in text boxes, key points, and numerous line drawings.
Prepare for board certification by reviewing slides of key points that are included on the DVD.
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Improve your ability to recognize abnormalities in TEE with extensive videos of both normal and pathologic findings.
Master new techniques with added chapters on epiaortic echocardiography, 3D echocardiography, echocardiography in the ICU, and echocardiography for adult congenital heart disease.

This text contains a well-focused, succinctly presented, and beautifully illustrated summary of the current state of perioperative transesophageal echocardiography. This reviewer highly recommends it to those preparing to enter the field as well as experienced users of transesophageal echocardiography." Anesthesia & Analgesia (review of previous edition)

Table of Contents

Sidebotham: Practical Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography 2E
Section 1: physical principles of ultrasound
Physical principles, image formation, and artifacts
Principles of Doppler ultrasound
Section 2: perioperative transesophageal echocardiography
TEE image planes and standard views
Three-dimensional TEE
Epiaortic and epicardial imaging
Diagnostic pitfalls and cardiac masses
Systolic left ventricular function
Diastolic left ventricular function
The mitral valve
The aortic valve and left ventricular outflow tract
The thoracic aorta
Prosthetic valves
The right ventricle, tricuspid valve, and pulmonary valve
Adult congenital
Heart and lung transplantation
Mechanical cardiac and respiratory support
Section 3: Critical care echocardiography
Transthoracic echocardiography
Echocardiography in the intensive care unit
Assessment of hemodynamic instability
Chest ultrasound
Section 4: Quantitative Echocardiography
Quantitative echocardiography
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