title: Transesophageal echocardiography in noncardiac thoracic surgery.
abstract: In high-risk surgeries with medically complicated patients, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) adds an additional level of monitoring with which few can disagree. This article presents multiple applications of TEE that can assist both the anesthesiologist and the surgeon through major noncardiac thoracic surgery. It highlights how TEE can be used as an adjuvant to lung resection surgery; TEE as a monitor during lung transplantation; TEE to assess patients for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; TEE for thoracic aortic surgery; and TEE in the assessment of patients with acute pulmonary hypertension undergoing noncardiac thoracic surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. breandan.sullivan@ucdenver.edu
authors.forename: Breandan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: Ferenc
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Puskas
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fernandez-Bustamante
mesh_terms: D001013:Aorta, Thoracic / Q000601:surgery; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D004562:Electrocardiography; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D008168:Lung / Q000601:surgery; D016040:Lung Transplantation; D016343:Monitoring, Intraoperative; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*