A Multi-Country Survey on the Availability of Intraoperative Use of Echocardiography for Noncardiac Surgery.
Mohamed R ElTahanDavy C ChengLaszlo SzegediJannicke Mellin-OlsenMarko ZdravkovicEric Benedet LineburgerDaniela FilipescuLuigi TritapepeFabio GuarracinoCaetano Nigro NetoPaula Camona GarciaMiguel Ángel Rodenas MonteagudoManuel Gil GranellRosario Vicente GuillénPhilippe GaudardAhmed AbdulmomenAbdelazeem Ali EldawlatlySerban-Ion Bubenek-TurconiRadu StoicaMarc LickerGabor ErdoesEckhard MauermannMikhail KirovVladimir LomivorotovVera SaldienMona MomeniJiapeng HuangPublished in: Seminars in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia (2024)
Echocardiography machines and skilled echocardiographers are still unavailable at many centers worldwide. National societies should aim to train a critical mass of certified TEE/TTE anesthesiologists and provide all anesthesiologists access to perioperative TEE/TTE machines in anesthesiology departments, considering the increasing number of older and sicker surgical patients scheduled for noncardiac surgery.