Critical Care Transesophageal Echocardiography in Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an extraordinary strain on healthcare systems across North America. Defining the optimal approach for managing a critically ill COVID-19 patient is rapidly changing. Goal-directed transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is frequently used by physicians caring for intubated critically ill patients as a reliable imaging modality that is well suited to answer questions at bedside.

Methods

A multidisciplinary (intensive care, critical care cardiology, and emergency medicine) group of experts in point-of-care echocardiography and TEE from the United States and Canada convened to review the available evidence, share experiences, and produce a consensus statement aiming to provide clinicians with a framework to maximize the safety of patie

SUBMITTER: Teran F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7245221 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature