Anesthesia and Transesophageal Echocardiography for WATCHMAN Device Implantation

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2016 Dec;30(6):1685-1692. doi: 10.1053/j.jvca.2016.06.012. Epub 2016 Jun 8.

Authors

Ludmil Mitrev¹, Natalie Trautman², Ratna Vadlamudi³, Nayan Desai⁴, Sajjad A Sabir⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Anesthesiology and Division of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
⁴ Department of Cardiology, Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ.

PMID: 27595532
DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2016.06.012

No abstract available

Keywords: WATCHMAN device; atrial fibrillation; ischemic stroke; left atrial appendage closure device.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Anesthesia / methods*
Atrial Appendage / surgery*
Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods*
Equipment Design
Humans
Septal Occluder Device*