Seminars in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia
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Semin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth · Sep 2010
The use of ultrasound to guide interventions: from bench to bedside and back again.
The ultrasound machine was originally devised as a diagnostic tool to help evaluate heart structure and function. With recent advances in ultrasound, including live 3D ultrasound, its potential to guide interventions within the heart has increasingly been recognized. ⋯ Anesthesiologists have also used ultrasound with much success in cardiac operating rooms (ORs) to guide cannula placement and, to a limited extent, interventions. The focus of this article is a review of the author's work on ultrasound and virtual reality-guided cardiac interventions, both in the research laboratory and in the OR.