Focused transthoracic echocardiography in obstetrics

Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography in Hip Fracture Surgery Patients

Despite advances in medical care, hip fracture surgery remains one of the commonest and highest risk surgical procedures (10% in-hospital mortality and 25% at one year), representing a major economic cost to our community and a World health care burden. Hip fracture patients are usually elderly and chronic cardiovascular disease is common. Due to urgency of surgery, frequent patient cognitive i...

Transthoracic Echocardiography in Mice

In recent years, murine models have become the primary avenue for studying the molecular mechanisms of cardiac dysfunction resulting from changes in gene expression. Transgenic and gene targeting methods can be used to generate mice with altered cardiac size and function, and as a result, in vivo techniques are needed to evaluate their cardiac phenotype. Transthoracic echocardiography, pulse wa...

Critical Care Transthoracic Echocardiography

A 70-year-old man with end-stage heart failure and a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device received repeated electrical discharges from his biventricular implantable cardiac defibrillator. Although the electrocardiogram demonstrated ventricular fibrillation, the patient was awake and in no distress. A focused transthoracic echocardiogram was performed to assess ventricular function rev...

Basic transthoracic echocardiography.

Analysis of 1-year Consecutive Application with Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography in Noncardiac Surgery

Point‐of‐care transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is an evolving field in anesthesia field and verified to have the potential to provide rapid diagnostic information during the hemodynamic collapse in operating room.[1] In this retrospective observatory study, we retrieved all the data of 1‐year consecutive use of intraoperative echocardiography in patients with circulatory collapse or undergo...