Open AccessProspective national audit of major gastrointestinal complications of transesophageal echocardiography studies in children
Author(s) -
Tim Murphy,
Alan McCheyne
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
annals of cardiac anaesthesia/annals of cardiac anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 0974-5181
pISSN - 0971-9784
DOI - 10.4103/aca.aca_275_20
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , prospective cohort study , audit , perioperative , complication , intensive care , general surgery , pediatrics , emergency medicine , surgery , intensive care medicine , physics , management , optics , economics
Perioperative trans-esophageal echocardiography ('TEE') is widely used for the assessment of anatomy/repair of congenital cardiac defects. It is recognised that there are risks associated with its use.