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Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) represents one of the more exciting developments in diagnostic cardiology and hemodynamic monitoring of the last decade. Anesthesiologists in the United States were early to recognize its potential use in the perioperative phase and have been instrumental in its development.
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de Bruijn, N.P. (1996). Transesophageal Echocardiography: Just Another Expensive Toy?. In: Stanley, T.H., Bailey, P.L. (eds) Anesthesiology and the Cardiovascular Patient. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, vol 31. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1622-7_10
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