"I need to reduce recovery time,
complications, and resources....
"I need to avoid fluid overload
during resuscitation...
"I need to see cardiac
filling and function...
"I need to know if it's tamponade
or desaturation...
"I need to get my critical
patients off vent faster...
so I use hemodynamic ultrasound."

Miniaturized hemodynamic transesophageal echocardiogram (hTEE) can accurately diagnose pericardial tamponade after open-heart surgery

S. Gupta, J. Miessau, H. T. Pitcher, Q. Yang, N. C. Cavarocchi, H. Hirose
Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Presented at Academic Surgical Congress, San Diego, CA

Read more from our Abstracts & Posters