• Atul Jaidka, Hailey Hobbs, Seth Koenig, Scott J Millington, and Robert T Arntfield.
• University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
• Chest. 2019 Jan 1; 155 (1): 194-201.

AbstractTransesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is a safe and minimally invasive tool that can routinely provide high-quality anatomic and hemodynamic information in the severely ill. Despite its potential for frontline acute care clinicians, TEE use has typically been reserved for diagnostic experts in the cardiac-surgical milieu. With the continued evolution of point-of-care ultrasound into increasingly sophisticated domains, TEE has gained steady uptake in many nontraditional environments for both advanced echocardiographic assessment as well as answering more goal directed, fundamental questions. This article introduces the workings of the TEE transducer, presents a systematic approach to a goal-directed hemodynamic assessment, and includes a series of illustrative figures and narrated video presentations to demonstrate the techniques described.Copyright © 2018 American College of Chest Physicians. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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