AngioVac Procedures: Integration of cardiac surgeon and anesthesiologist-led transesophageal echocardiography: A preliminary report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The AngioVac system is a novel, minimally invasive, endovascular technique used to evacuate intravascular or intracardiac vegetation or thrombus. Although most AngioVac procedures are currently performed by interventionalists, this innovative procedure has been gaining attention among the surgical and anesthesia communities.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed all patients who underwent the AngioVac procedure performed by a cardiac surgeon between August 2019 and December 2022. Fellowship-trained cardiac anesthesiologists operated TEE to navigate the AngioVac cannula during the procedure. The stored TEE images were retrospectively reviewed and independently analyzed by two cardiac anesthesiologists with specific focus on TEE-guided navigation of the AngioVac can

SUBMITTER: Lin CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11255581 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature