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TEE Waves: The Promise of Prehospital Transesophageal Echocardiography
10/30/2019
Ultrasound in the prehospital environment has become a reality, and a new disposable TEE (transesophageal echocardiogram) is now available. Currently our system's physician response unit does prehospital TEE during cardiac arrest. This allows EMS to reposition the hand away from the left ventricular outflow tract, maximizing cardiac output without interrupting compressions. As technology improves and the price of the TEE probes falls, we anticipate this technology will become standard in the prehospital setting.