Feasibility of resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography at out-of-hospital emergency scenes of cardiac arrest

Abstract Guidelines recommend the use of ultrasound in cardiac arrest. Transthoracic echocardiography, has issues with image quality and by increasing hands-off times during resuscitation. We assessed the feasibility of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), which does not have both problems, at ou...

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Main Authors: Mario Krammel, Thomas Hamp, Christina Hafner, Ingrid Magnet, Michael Poppe, Peter Marhofer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-11-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-46684-x