Whenever my residents/fellows or I place central venous catheters (CVCs) in the operating room in a case where we’ll be performing intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography (TEE), I always place the TEE probe beforehand. I obtain a midesophageal bicaval view looking for preexisting hardware in the patient’s right atrium (RA) such as ICD wires, PICC lines, etc. …