Critical Care for Potential Liver Transplant Candidates

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bezinover, Dmitri (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Saner, Fuat (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Critical care medicine.; Hepatology.; Anesthesiology.; Surgery.; Nephrology.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

This book focuses on patients with end-stage-liver disease (ESLD) who could possibly qualify for liver transplant. This patient cohort raises many problems: who should be treated and also, when is it too late for transplant? The authors are all dedicated experts in the field of ESLD/liver transplant...

Table of Contents:

• Cardiac Evaluation and Management
• Management of Hyponatremia in End-Stage Liver Disease
• Hemodynamic changes and modulation in in patients with acute and chronic liver failure
• Pulmonary Evaluation of Liver Transplant Candidates
• Sepsis, septic shock in cirrhotic patients
• The Hemostatic System in Patients with Cirrhosis, Monitoring of coagulation and Management of Bleeding
• Management of thrombosis in liver transplant candidate
• Acute kidney injury and hepatorenal syndrome
• Critical Care for Potential Liver Transplant Candidates: Ventilation
• Management upper GI bleeding in cirrhotic patients
• Acute-on-chronic-liver failure
• Critical care of the acute liver failure patient
• Liver assist systems for bridging to transplantation: Devices and concepts. .