TEE: Transesophageal Echocardiogram

What is TEE?

TEE is Transesophageal echocardiogram it is a diagnostic test for heart diseases. it is more accurate than the ultrasound because it is directly inside and near to your heart that's why it can capture a closer view of your heart.It is also use during Cardiac Catherization and Open Heart Surgery for monitoring what's going on inside.

My TEE Experienced

Here are the following steps I experienced during TEE

• Fasting (no food and water for 8 hours)


• I change my clothes to hospital dress


• I was IV (intravenously) this is for sedation it is where the doctor injected the sedative to make me groggy.


• Lots of devices were attached to my chest, feet and arms. These devices were for my vital signs monitoring.


• The nurse sprayed Lidocaine on my throat. Lidocaine is a local anesthesia.


• I wear the oxygen


• When the anesthesia fully affect the doctor begun to insert a very long tube through my mouth which passed through my esophagus then the doctor begun to study my heart through the monitor.


• I keep on vomiting while the tube was inside my esophagus but it is normal.
  After studying and capturing the scenes inside my heart the doctor slowly pull out the tube
  I rest for a while.


• The nurses started to detached all the devices.


• When the effect of the anesthesia subsided my doctor started to explained to us.
  I fixed myself then go home.