Perioperative Use of Strain Echocardiography

Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

Echocardiography was introduced in the operating room in the 1970s, with its initial applications involving epicardial echocardiography (EE). The use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) during surgery was first described in 1980 and did not become commonplace until high-frequency transducers and color Doppler imaging became available in the mid-1980s. The improved quality of the acoustic ...

Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

P RACTICE Guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and the patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, Practice Guidelines developed by the American Society of Anesthesiol...

Practice Guidelines for Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

P RACTICE Guidelines are systematically developed recommendations that assist the practitioner and the patient in making decisions about health care. These recommendations may be adopted, modified, or rejected according to clinical needs and constraints and are not intended to replace local institutional policies. In addition, Practice Guidelines developed by the American Society of Anesthesiol...

Perioperative use of methotrexate.

Methotrexate (MTX) is the disease modifying antirheumatic 'anchor' drug for the treatment of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Despite its widespread use and the frequent need of elective orthopaedic and other types of surgical procedures in patients with RA, some confusion exists concerning the use of MTX in the perioperative period. Currently available data do not suggest a need to dis...

myocardial strain and strain rate imaging: comparison between doppler derived strain imaging and speckle tracking echocardiography