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Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) is a versatile tool in the armamentarium of the modern critical care physician and its role is finding more and more application in the intensive care unit (ICU). Although well established in the domains of cardiology and cardiac anaesthesia its penetrance into intensive care units has been slow. This could be down to financial constraints but is more likely due to paucity of training and lack of established guidelines.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesia, Morriston Hospital, Heol Maes Eglwys, Swansea, SA6 6NL, West Glamorgan, UK

    Farhan T. Husain & Maria-Magdalena Gurzun

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  2. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Wrexham Maelor Hospital, Wrexham, UK

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  3. Department of Anaesthetics, Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, Shrewsbury, UK

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Husain, F.T., Gurzun, MM. (2022). Transoesophageal Echocardiography. In: Walden, A., Campbell, A., Miller, A., Wise, M. (eds) Ultrasound in the Critically Ill. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71742-1_9

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