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It's a PFO! A few words about this powerful echo window: The bicaval view 🧵 (1/8)
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This window is attainable only via a transESOPHAGEAL echo (TEE).
Point-of-care TEE is used widely in SICUs worldwide, and MICUs outside the US. You can expect to see them increasingly in US MICUs over the next decade. (2/8)
Point-of-care TEE is used widely in SICUs worldwide, and MICUs outside the US. You can expect to see them increasingly in US MICUs over the next decade. (2/8)
By viewing the heart via the esophagus, windows are often much crisper than when fighting with rib shadows, edematous lungs, and often bandages/wounds (esp. in surgical patients) on the chest. (3/8)
