Echocardiographic Essentials: From Screening to Device Implantation- What the Interventional Cardiologist Needs to Know

A refreshing , adequately supported by pragmatic imaging, 22 minute presentation from an Arizona meeting that many surgeons would find quite informative and educating. Dr. Gellert offers the view of the anaesthetist performing the intraoperative TEE (TOE) addressing his interventional cardiologist colleagues, yet I find he covers what the mitral surgeon needs to learn in order to communicate with both anaasthetists and cardiologists before, during and after an operation. I found particularly germane to our surgical practice the balanced analysis of SAM post-TAVR and the pitfalls of 2-D echo.