Cardiac Arrest during Transesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE) due to Acute Right Ventricular Failure

Table 1

The rates of common complications of TEE documented in the literature from a multicenter retrospective review of over 10,000 patients undergoing TEE (Daniel et al.) and a meta-analysis (Côté et al.).

Complication	Frequency	Source of data
Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia	0.03%	Daniel et al. [3]
Transient atrial fibrillation	0.03%	Daniel et al. [3]
Third degree heart block	0.01%	Daniel et al. [3]
Angina	0.01%	Daniel et al. [3]
Cardiac arrest	0.01%	Daniel et al. [3]
Hypoxemia (%)	18%	Côté et al. [2]
Bronchospasm	0.5%	Daniel et al. [3]
Mortality	0.1%	Daniel et al. [3]
Retching	39%	Côté et al. [2]
Esophageal perforation	0.1%	Côté et al. [2]