Resuscitative TEE challenges standardized CPR

TEE's diffusion from cardiac PACU into ED/ICUs tries to build its use case

Do we perform chest compressions in the wrong spot on half our patients during CPR? How would we even know?

Resuscitative transesophageal echocardiography means using point-of-care TEE in emergency or critical care settings to guide treatments of crashing patients based on observed cardiovascular physiology in real-time. As TEE requires the insertion of…