In this episode, Dr. Sergion Zanotti discusses TEE in cardiac arrest and shock. Critical care clinicians commonly utilize transthoracic echocardiography in the ICU as part of their point-of-care-ultrasonography (POCUS) toolkit. However, there is a growing push to train intensivists in using transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) for cardiac arrest and peri-arrest situations in the ICU. Our guest is Dr. Sara Nikravan, a cardiothoracic anesthesia critical care physician with training in advanced perioperative echocardiography. Dr. Nikravan is an Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington Medical School and practices at the UW Medical Center. She is recognized as an expert and master educator in Critical Care, Perioperative echocardiography, and Point of Care Ultrasound. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed papers and is the guidelines co-chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Adult Critical Care Ultrasonography: Focused Update 2024, recently published in Critical Care Medicine. 

Additional links:

Society of Critical Care Medicine Guidelines on Adult Critical Care Ultrasonography: Focused Update 2024, Crit Care Med 2025: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39982182/

Focused Transesophageal Echocardiography During Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation: JACC Review Topic of the Week. JACC 2020: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32762909/

Landing page for the Resuscitative TEE Project website: https://www.resuscitativetee.com/

Books mentioned in this episode:

The Prophet. By Kahlil Gibran: https://www.amazon.com/dp/998247037X?psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp