Usefulness of Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Treatment of Critically Ill Patients
Hwang JJ, Shyu KG, Chen JJ, Tseng YZ, Kuan P, Lien WP
Chest, September 1993; 104(3):861-6
Transesophageal echocardiography was a safe, well-tolerated, and valuable diagnostic approach for the rapid detection of specific cardiac abnormalities in patients with critical illnesses; TEE should be considered in the treatment of critically ill patients especially when TEE provided inadequate information.
TEE as an Intraoperative Haemodynamic Monitoring Tool
Jan IT Poelaert, MD, PhD
Annals of Cardiac Anesthesia 2002; 5: 119-126
 
Importance of Transesophageal Echocardiography in the Critically Ill and Injured Patient
David Porembka, DO, FCCM
Critical Care Medicine 2007, Vol 35, No. 8 (Suppl.) pp S414-S430.
TEE should be (and is in some institutions) the standard of care and management in assisting the intensivist in diagnosis of a variety of maladies.
Hemodynamic Instability After Cardiac Surgery: Transesophageal Echocardiographic Diagnosis of a Localized Pericardial Tamponade
Fabio Sangalli, MD, Luisa Colagrande, MD, Bruna Manetti, MD, Leonello Avalli, MD� Simona Celotti, MD, Paolo Maniglia, MD, Francesco Formica, MD, Giovanni Paolini, MD, PhD, and Antonio Presenti, MD, PhD
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, Vol. 19, No. 6 (December), 2005: pp775-776
...TEE provides more accurate diagnoses in cardiac surgical patients..