Even so, it is not okay for a doctor to just talk nonsense to a patient, especially when facing a big shot like Teacher Lu who has rich medical knowledge himself.
"Teacher, don't worry too much." Xie Wanying told Teacher Lu that doctors need to bring new hope to patients in addition to presenting cruel facts, so as not to make them despair. "Medical technology is changing all the time. So the first of the two difficulties I mentioned earlier, our hospital already has this three-dimensional TEE transesophageal echocardiogram examination."
TEE.
A group of people were a little confused when they suddenly heard her mention this relatively little-known technology.
TEE, or transesophageal echocardiography, originated in the 1980s. It was two-dimensional at first, and developed into three-dimensional in the early 1990s. Now some are studying four-dimensional. This technology has been very limited in clinical application since the beginning. Most doctors are not optimistic about the prospects of this technology itself. The operation is like inserting a gastric tube, and it is necessary to give the patient anesthesia, which is a relatively troublesome thing for both patients and doctors. Therefore, it has never been widely promoted in clinical practice.
"I seem to have heard someone talk about what you said. Is it true that few people do this test?" Teacher Lu asked her, "Is it also an echocardiogram?"
The teacher is a pharmacist, so he may be unfamiliar with clinical examination items. I am not a specialist in this field and I have never thought about it. I can only think of TTE, which is also an echocardiogram.
"Teacher, you are talking about TTE." Xie Wanying explained, "TTE is widely used in clinical practice. Basically, patients suspected of having organic heart disease will undergo this examination for further investigation. TTE is a transthoracic echocardiogram, and the probe is used to explore the inside of the heart through the chest wall. TEE is to use the probe to enter the esophagus to explore the heart. Just from the comparison of the distance between the two and the heart, TEE's probe is definitely closer to the heart. So TEE has several major advantages here. If you want to explore heart structures far from the chest wall, such as the atria and large blood vessels, TEE is obviously more advantageous than TTE, and it will be clearer."
Teacher Lu seemed fascinated by what she said. He kept listening, his eyes focused on her face and almost motionless.
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When this child speaks knowledge, it seems as if magic comes out of her mouth.
Teacher Lu thought that it might be because her speech was concise and to the point, and she had a deep and confident understanding of medicine, which was enough to impress people.
If a big shot spoke like this, no one would think anything of it, but the problem was that the kid was just a medical student, so she could only feel deeply surprised.
Many people around were also shocked by what Xie Wanying said.
"Its probe can rotate, and it can detect important structures such as the atrial appendage, pulmonary veins, and atrial septum from an angle. There is no lung tissue between the esophagus and the heart, so there is no risk of affecting the lungs, and a higher frequency probe can be used for detection. These advantages are not available in other examinations such as TTE." Xie Wanying concluded with a key point, "The probe in the esophagus means that continuous monitoring can be performed during cardiovascular surgery, which is of great significance to cardiovascular doctors and anesthesiologists."
Is that so? People from other departments look at people outside their hearts?
Some even looked at Zhang Tinghai who was giving the anesthesia.
Zhang Tinghai was completely confused. They were in the field of anesthesia, but they had never thought of using cardiovascular technology for intraoperative testing. Was this a new research direction?
Haven't you ever heard her mention it? Zhang Tinghai glanced at Xie Wanying's face and began to suspect that she had some knowledge of anesthesiology.
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