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Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie

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10-04-2024 | Echocardiography | Editorials

Speckle tracking echocardiography: too much granularity?

Authors: Robert Chen, MD, FRCPC, Alexandra Fottinger, MD, FRCPC, Claude Tousignant, MD, FRCPC

Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie | Issue 5/2024

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First published in 1982, a single-plane phased transducer was married to the tip of a gastroscope, showing clinically useful cardiac imaging.¹ With the advantage of general anesthesia with intubation and neuromuscular paralysis, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) was a natural imaging tool in cardiac anesthesia. …

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Title: Speckle tracking echocardiography: too much granularity?
Authors: Robert Chen, MD, FRCPC
Alexandra Fottinger, MD, FRCPC
Claude Tousignant, MD, FRCPC
Publication date: 10-04-2024
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keywords: Echocardiography
Echocardiography
Transesophageal Echocardiography
Published in: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie / Issue 5/2024
Print ISSN: 0832-610X
Electronic ISSN: 1496-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12630-024-02714-4

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