Liver Critical Care & Liver Failure
Hepatology, HPB Surgery and Transplant patients will spend time in the Critical Care environment, either as an emergency or as part of elective treatment. All hepatologists need to be familiar with the critical care environment in order to work along-side Intensivists and provide optimal care for liver patients when they are at their most vulnerable. Hepatologists in specialist liver units will require additional skills in assessment and decision making for critically unwell liver patients and this School aims to consolidate those skills.
Aims:
- To facilitate discussion and learning on the more challenging decisions and complex cases which present to Liver Critical Care Units.
- To provide an environment for discussion and networking which will provide the students and faculty with relationships to support and develop liver critical care in the future.
School Organisers:
- William Bernal, Professor of Liver Critical Care
- Brian Hogan, Consultant in Liver Critical Care & Hepatology
- Tasneem Pirani, Consultant in Liver Critical Care & ECMO
Learning objectives
- To gain knowledge required for hepatologists to be able to partner with Liver Intensivists and provide optimal care for liver patients with multi-organ failure.
- To understand the challenges and optimal management of ALF.
- To understand the optimal management of ACLF in the Liver Critical Care Unit (LCCU).
- To assess and discuss transplant listing from the LCCU of patients with ACLF.
- To understand the assessment and management of infection in patients with liver failure.
Target audience
- Hepatologists
- Transplant Hepatologists
- Liver Intensivists
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