90% Anesthesiologists that are trained and certified. 10% Cardiologists when certified Anesthesiologist is unavailable Keith Knopes, MD Virginia Mason Medical...
Anne, in Procardiaco Hospital (Rio de janeiro, Brazil) an echocardiography service`s member performes OR TEE. Wanderley Q. Pereira MD Rio de janeiro BRAZIL ...
Wanderley
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Jun 2, 2002 1:33 am
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I worked the past two years at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, OR. Some of the anesthesiologists did them there, but if they wanted an official study to...
Of course, in corrected transposition, the pulmonary and systemic veins should be normal. The aorta originates from the left sided ventricle and receives...
Humes, Richard M.D.
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Jun 2, 2002 1:34 am
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Did you ascertain the insertion point for the AV valves on the septum? If it is a congenital correction then that may be the most obvious indicator. ... From:...
Terry Zwakenberg
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Jun 2, 2002 1:35 am
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Here is how I was trained to distinguish an RV from an LV: The RV morphology: · The papillary muscles of the right ventricle arise from both the septal and...
Patrick D. Coon
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Jun 2, 2002 1:35 am
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At our hospital the anesthesiologist usually passes the probe before the cardiologist arrives to perform the pre-op valve evaluation. The cardiologist and...
Hi Anne At our hospital in Australia we have the cardiac anesthitist who does the itra-op TEE, usually on his own. All other TEE (in patients ICU CCU and out...
anthony wald
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Jun 2, 2002 1:36 am
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Dear Group I would like to know how many of your hospitals use sedation for TEE? I trained at hospital where the only time we sedated was if it was a young...
anthony wald
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Jun 2, 2002 1:37 am
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Guidelines in the UK suggest that you should only use sedation if the patient is extremely anxious but generally I try to avoid it. With suitable reassurance,...
Andrew Mitchell
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Jun 3, 2002 3:21 am
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The anesthesiologist performs intraop TEE and rarely, when unavailable, a Cardiologist. Robert J. Suriani MD St. Vincent's Medical Center Bridgeport, CT...
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Jun 3, 2002 3:22 am
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Wald, in the ECOR ( Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) we performed TEE without sedation. Our insucess is in world statistic. Wanderley Q. Pereira Rio de Janeiro Brazil...
Wanderley
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Jun 3, 2002 3:23 am
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Anthony Wald, We have beenn doing TEE for the last 12 years and we do not sedate the patients at all! Just lignocaine gargles and a bit of lignocaine gel. Dr M...
wahreh
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Jun 3, 2002 3:23 am
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Sedation is used with all TEE procedures where I work. There is a nurse who monitors the patient during and for approximately 20 to 30 minute post. The ...
Moore, Brenda
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Jun 3, 2002 3:23 am
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does anyone have a copy of an illustration of the normal appearance of the aortic root and ascending aorta following Bentall procedure without resection of...
TEE's in the OR are handled the same way at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City as in Spokane, WA . The echo sonographers also manipulate the probe pre and...
Kutchera@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:24 am
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We use sedation on almost all the patients unless the patient would prefer not to be sedated. Most people dot take swallowing a long tube too kindly so ...
Abello4@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:24 am
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We routinely use conscious sedation...... Versed and Fentanyl. This is probably the norm for U.S.A. labs. However, this doesn't really add to cost since the...
GersonSL@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:25 am
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Carlos, thanks for the response. I agree that it is some normal structure but it seems to be below the RA. My radiologist who reads the abdominal ultrasound...
GersonSL@...
Jun 3, 2002 3:25 am
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- no sedation unless necessary to pass the probe (extremely anxious pat. or so) or dictated by the clinical situation (e. g. aortic dissection with BP rises to...
Lothar Faber
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Jun 4, 2002 5:00 pm
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Speaking as someone who has had a TEE, I would not want one without sedation. Most patients that we see don't require much sedation, usually just a little...
Laffey, Dawn
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Jun 4, 2002 5:00 pm
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dear friends...in the Philippines..the echocardiologist does the intra-op TEE monitoring although a number of cardiovascular anesthesiologists can do the...
tedd@...
Jun 4, 2002 5:00 pm
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Dear friends, In the presence of mild to moderate PS, is the calculation of RVSP by TR jet still accurate? Anne Bello...
Abello4@...
Jun 4, 2002 5:01 pm
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Every cardiologist that I have worked with over the past twelve years has always used sedation for TEE's. It has always been a combo of Versed and Demerol or...
John Eagle
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Jun 4, 2002 5:02 pm
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Thanks for all the replies. Has anyone ever encountered corrected transposition of the ventricles? I like the terminology of ventricular inversion, except...
RTURNER33@...
Jun 4, 2002 5:02 pm
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A corrected Transposition is like a called "l" transposition. The great vessels are switched but so are the ventricles. Therefore the moderator band should be...
Abello4@...
Jun 4, 2002 5:03 pm
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Iam sending a picture of Bentall procedure . U can see serial images with false aneurysm U can see all those images in the website - Serial Echo study...
My group does quite a bit of Dobutamine Stress Echo routinely. I would be interested to know the methods currently in vogue to quantify wall motion changes...
RV systolic pressure is still accurate with any degree of PS, it just does not reflect pulmonary pressure unless you subtract the PS gradient. Gerson S....
GersonSL@...
Jun 4, 2002 8:49 pm
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Dr. Faber, I certainly bow to the greater experience in TEE in Germany. However, as a note, a patient with conscious sedation can still usually cough to...
