Echocardiography in the operating theatre. Where does the air come from?
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perioperative echocardiogram, echocardiographic monitoring.Abstract
The transesophageal echocardiogram (ETE) is an increasingly important tool in cardiac surgery. We present a case in which the ETE allowed the diagnosis and early treatment of a complication related to vascular accesses that could have been a problem for the intervention.
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