Hospitals that shift away from routine use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) and general anesthesia during TAVR to an “as-needed” mentality stand to gain shorter procedures and hospital stays ...

Morton Kern, MD, of VA Long Beach Healthcare System and University of California, Irvine, often engages his colleagues via email in brief, informal dialogue on clinically relevant topics in ...

Upper GI injuries related to transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) were the norm during structural heart interventions -- even in the hands of experienced operators, according to a report. A new ...

A transesophageal echocardiogram may be performed to help diagnose heart or blood vessel diseases or conditions, to guide cardiac catheterization or to prepare a patient for surgery, according to the ...

Doctors use general anesthesia during surgery to ensure a person is unconscious and cannot feel pain. Under general anesthesia, people are unable to feel pain (analgesic) and will be unconscious.