Publisher's Synopsis
Increasingly, patients are referred for open-heart surgery based on Doppler echocardiographic assessment of chamber size, function and Doppler hemodynamics. For this reason, cardiac surgeons need to be familiar with these non-invasive techniques. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is now routine in many centers for planning operative procedures and for assessing myocardial function in the perioperative period In this excellent book, the authors provide the requisite background information so that cardiac surgeons and anesthetists will know how to make optimal use of this technology.
