Pierre C. Wong • Wanda C. Miller-Hance
Editors

2014

The inspiration for this book arose from several important observations. First , we have noted many specialists (both in pediatric and adult medicine) who feel uncomfortable with or incapable of performing a systematic transesophageal echocardiographic (TEE) examination in a patient with congenital heart disease (CHD), or interpreting such a study. Even some advanced practitioners who can adequately perform/interpret a transthoracic echocardiogram have difficulty with TEE because, despite the many similarities between the two echocardiographic modalities, competent performance of a TEE study in a patient with CHD requires both technical proficiency and specialized cognitive skills.