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European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access originally published online on February 7, 2009
European Journal of Echocardiography 2009 10(2):227-228; doi:10.1093/ejechocard/jep009
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Novel intubation technique for transesophageal echocardiographic examination

Rifat Eralp Ulusoy1 and Nezihi Kucukarslan2,*

1 Department of Cardiology, GATA Haydarpasa Military Teaching Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
2 Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, GATA Military Teaching Hospital, Ankara, Turkey

Received 30 May 2008; accepted after revision 31 August 2008; online publish-ahead-of-print 7 February 2009.

* Corresponding author: GATA Askeri Hastanesi Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi ABD, 06018 Etlik, Ankara, Turkey. Tel: +90 3123045271/5335185364; fax: +90 3123045200. E-mail address: nkucukarslan{at}gata.edu.tr or nezihimd{at}hotmail.com


  Abstract

Pharyngeal intubation is a challenging problem during transesophageal procedures. The rate of unsuccessful intubation varies from 1.5 to 1.9%. In this article, we described a novel technique, which we utilize in our hospital for the difficult intubations without any technical failure for the insertion of the transesophageal probe.

Keywords: Transesophageal echocardiography; Intubation technique


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