Survey of Anesthesiology. 61(3):83, JUN 2017
DOI: 10.1097/01.sa.0000521771.84465.33
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Issn Print: 0039-6206
Publication Date: 2017/06/01
Transesophageal Lung Ultrasound: To Boldly Go…
A. Lambert;R. Chen;
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Division of Cardiac Anesthesiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Abstract
(Abstracted from Can J Anaesth, 63(11):1211–1214, 2016)This editorial reviews the study of transesophageal lung ultrasound (TELU) by Cavayas et al.1 The author examines TELU in the context of many successful “point-of-care ultrasound” (POCUS) techniques such as transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and transthoracic echocardiography, which are frequently used to examine various organs and tissue, as well as establish diagnoses.