Mohamed M El Tahan, Davy C Cheng, Laszlo Szegedi, Jannicke Mellin-Olsen, Marko Zdravkovic, Eric Benedet Lineburger, Daniela Filipescu, Luigi Tritapepe, Fabio Guarracino, Caetano Nigro Neto, Paula Camona Garcia, Miguel Ángel Rodenas Monteagudo, Manuel Gil Granell, Rosario Vicente Guillén, Philippe Gaudard, Ahmed Abdulmomen, Abdelazeem Ali Eldawlatly, Serban-Ion Bubenek-Turconi, Radu Stoica, Marc Licker, Gabor Erdoes, Eckhard Mauermann, Mikhail Kirov, Vladimir Lomivorotov, Vera Saldien, Mona Momeni, Jiapeng Huang
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Abstract
Background: This survey aimed to explore the availability and accessibility of echocardiography during noncardiac surgery worldwide.
Methods: An internet-based 45-item survey was sent, followed by reminders from August 30, 2021, to August 20, 2022.
Results: 1189 responses were received from 62 countries. Nearly seventy-one percent of respondents had intraoperatively used transesophageal or transthoracic echocardiography (TEE and TTE, respectively) for monitoring or examination. The unavailability of echocardiography machines (30.3%), lack of trained personnel (30.2%), and absence of clinical indications (22.6%) were the top 3 reasons for not using intraoperative echocardiography in noncardiac surgery. About 61.5% of participants had access to at least one echocardiography machine. About 41% had access to at least 1 TEE probe, and 62.2% had access to at least 1 TTE probe. Seventy-four percent of centers had a procedure to request intraoperative echocardiography if needed for noncardiac cases. Intraoperative echocardiography service was immediately available in 58% of centers.
Conclusions: Echocardiography machines and skilled echocardiographers are still unavailable at many centers worldwide. National societies should aim to train a critical mass of certified TEE/TTE anesthesiologists and provide all anesthesiologists access to perioperative TEE/TTE machines in anesthesiology departments, considering the increasing number of older and sicker surgical patients scheduled for noncardiac surgery.
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