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An Approach to Standard Perioperative Transthoracic Echocardiography Practice for Anesthesiologists—Perioperative Transthoracic Echocardiography Protocols
The use of intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has become the standard of care for most cardiac surgical procedures. There are guidelines established for training, practice, and quality improvement in perioperative TEE by the joint efforts of the American Society of Echocardiography and Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists. Cardiac point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) increasingly is being incorporated into anesthesiologists’ training and practice. While a special “certification in Critical Care Echocardiography” was created by the National Board of Echocardiography in 2019, there currently exist no guidelines for training, certification, and practice of perioperative TTE by anesthesiologists.
