British Heart Foundation - Your Guide to TOE (Transoesophageal Echocardiogram), heart disease test

[@Frellyouall]

I had this today. The probe is in for at least 15 minutes but not much more. You can't eat or drink or 6 hours before. I have a sore throat and it was done almost 12 hours ago. It is very unpleasant and there will be gagging. The doctors and nurses were lovely and very good to me. I felt fine afterwards but a few hours later I was a little queezy and very tired. Worth getting it done in the long run as it leads to getting your heart fixed.

[@Gem_ini]

I’m in two minds about getting this. How unpleasant was it? Could you feel it inside you? Did you get sedated? Thanks for sharing xx

[@rabailtariq6122]

Is this Test is Pain full??

[@Preludxtc]

hole in the heart... a PFO or an ASD?

[@fullthrottle9086]

Getting this done under general anesthesia as the first attempt failed 😂

Really TOE? I thought that it should be TEE - as these abbreviations (not only TEE, but also TTE and some other) are used internationally - to it should be clear what is going everywhere. And I meet only TEE for transesophageusechocardiography. T for trans, the first E for esophageus, the second E for echocardiography I am not a MD or nurse (only orderly), but still as I know these abbreviations and their exact meaning.

[@bob-em9gi]

Oesophageal is the spelling for many countries like Australia or Britain, so they call them TOEs

@@DrSardonicus I thank you for writing that in British English it is oesophagus, not only esophagus. But: please, accept that video is accessible not only in UK and many people don't know all "specialities" of British English (that is strongly affected by French language). And BTW, I am worried about that you will meet TEE in most countries of world, not TOE. Correct writing is surely good (I also hate wrong writing of some things in my* language), but using of transcriptions from other languages or dialects are the smallest problem. * - Czech

[@tixie1895]

@ the clues in the channel name ‘BRITISH Heart Foundation’ 😬