Transoesophageal echocardiography in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine

364 Pages·2004·38.91 MB·English

by  Jan Poelaert

Transoesophageal Echocardiography in
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
Second edition
Edited by
Tan Poelaert
Clinical Director, Cardiac Anaesthesia and Postoperative Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit,
Gent UniversityH ospital, Gent, Belgium
Karl Skarvan
Professor of Anaesthesiologx University of Basel, Kantonsspital Basel,
Basel, Switzerland

Transoesophageal Echocardiography in Anaesthesia
and Intensive Care Medicine
Second edition

Transoesophageal Echocardiography in
Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
Second edition
Edited by
Tan Poelaert
Clinical Director, Cardiac Anaesthesia and Postoperative Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Unit,
Gent UniversityH ospital, Gent, Belgium
Karl Skarvan
Professor of Anaesthesiologx University of Basel, Kantonsspital Basel,
Basel, Switzerland
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Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Abbreviations xi
1. Physical principles of ultrasound 1
Pierre-Guy Chassot
2. Perioperative transoesophageal echocardiography 23
Karl Skarvan, Jan Poelaert
3. Global left ventricular systolic function 47
Christoph Schmidt, Frank Hinder, Hugo Van Aken, Jan Poelaert
Left ventricular diastolic function 80
4.
Stefan G De Hert
5. Mitral valve disease 103
Heinz M Loick, Thomas Wichter, Christoph Schmidt
6. Aortic valve 121
Jack S Shanewise
Prosthetic valves 134
7.
Herman FJ Mannaerts, Cees A Visser
8. Right ventricle 145
Isabelle Michaux, Miodrag Filipovic, Karl Skarvan
9. Thoracic aorta 161
Raimund Erbel, Steven N Konstadt
10. Haemodynamics 176
Jan Poelaert, Karl Skarvan
11. Myocardial ischaemia 196
Manfred D Seeberger, Karl Skarvan, Michael K Cahalan
12. Congenital heart disease 221
Pierre-Guy Chassot, Dominique Bettex
13. Cardiac masses, air, and foreign bodies 248
Kazumasa Orihashi, Yasu Oka
14. Minimally invasive and minimal access cardiac surgery 265
Fiona Clements
15. Circulatory assist devices, artificial heart, and heart and lung transplantation 281
Joachim M Erb
Contents
16. Artifacts and pitfalls 305
Bijoy K Khandheria
17. Training and certification in the United States 315
Daniel M Thys
18. Training and certification in Europe 332
Karl Skarvan, Clemens-Alexander Greim, Norbert Roewer,
John D Kneeshaw, Tan Poelaert
Index 338
Contributors
Ruggero Ama
Research Fellow, Cardiac Anaesthesia and Postoperative Surgical ICU, Department of Intensive Care,
University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
Dominique Bettex
Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology, Division of Cardiac Anaesthesia, Institute of Anaesthesiology,
University Hospital (USZ) Zurich, Switzerland
Michael K Cahalan
Professor of Anesthesiology and Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake
City, USA
Pierre-Guy Chassot
Associated Professor of Anaesthesia, Head of Cardiac Anaesthesia Division, Department of
Anaesthesiology, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
Fiona Clements
Professor of Anesthesiology, Heart Center, Duke University, Durham, USA
Stefan G De Hert
Professor of Anaesthesiology, Director of the Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anaesthesia,
University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium
JoachimM Erb
Staff Anaesthesiologist, Head Intraoperative Echocardiography, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin,
Anaesthesiology Clinic, Berlin, Germany
Raimund Erbel
Professor of Cardiology, Director of Division of Cardiology, Zentrum Fur Innere Medizin, Medizinische
Klinik und Poliklinik, Universitatsklinikum Essen, Hufelandstrasse, Germany
Miodrag FiLipovic
Assistant Professor of Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesia, University of Basel, Kantonsspital
Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Clemens-AlexanderG reim
Professor of Anaesthesiology, Clinic of Anaesthesiology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany
Frank Hinder
Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care
Medicine, University Hospital UKM, Munster, Germany
Bijoy K Khandheria
Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School Consultant, Cardiovascular Diseases and Internal
Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Chair, Information Management and Technology Committee, Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, Minnesota, USA
John D Kneeshaw
Consultant Anaesthetist, Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Papworth Hospital, Papworth
Everard, UK
Steven N Konstadt
Professor of Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, CO-director, Division of Cardiothoracic
Anesthesia, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA
Contributors
Heinz M Loick
Professor of Anesthesiology, Director, Clinic of Anaesthesiology and Operative Intensive Care Medicine,
Marien Hospital, Euskirchen, Germany
Herman FJ Mannaerts
Associate Professor of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
Isabelle Michaux
Associate Professor, Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Mont-Godinne University Hospital,
Universit6 Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium
Yasu Oka
Professorial Lecturer, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesia, Mount
Sinai Medical Center, New York, USA
Kazumasa Orihashi
Associate Professor, First Department of Surgery, Hiroshima University School of Medicine, Hiroshima,
Japan
Jan Poelaert
Professor and Clinical Director, Cardiac Anaesthesia and Postoperative Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care
Unit, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
Norbert Roewer
Professor of Anaesthesiology, Director, Clinic of Anaesthesiology, University of Wurzburg, Wurzburg,
Germany
Christoph Schmidt
Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care
Medicine, University Hospital UKM, Munster, Germany
Manfred D Seeberger
Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology, Head of Cardiac Anaesthesia Division, University of Basel,
Kantonsspital Basel, Based, Switzerland.
Jack S Shanewise
Professor of Anesthesiology, Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Emory .University School of
Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Karl Skarvan
Professor of Anaesthesiology, Department of Anaesthesia, University of Basel, Kantonsspital Basel, Basel,
Switzerland
Daniel M Thys
Professor of Anesthesiology, Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology, St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital
Center and Department of Anesthesiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University,
New York. USA
Hugo Van Aken
Professor of Anaesthesiology, Chairman, Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care
Medicine, University Hospital UKM, Munster, Germany
Cees A Visser
Professor of Cardiology, Chairman, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Free University of
Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Thomas Wichter
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital UKM, Munster,
Germany