Liver Transplant Critical Care

Liver Transplant Critical Care

Transplant Critical Care Series

Few recipients arrive in the ICU with as many overlapping threats as the liver transplant patient — vascular complications, biliary leaks, coagulopathy, and immunosuppression-driven infection, often layered on top of residual organ failure. This book is built for that complexity: a comprehensive, exam-ready reference that carries you from candidate evaluation through late complications with real clinical depth.

What’s inside

• Pre-transplant ICU foundations — MELD/MELD-Na and allocation, ACLF, bridging the listed patient, and recipient optimisation
• Donor & peri-transplant course — donor types, ischaemia-reperfusion, post-reperfusion syndrome, and the intraoperative-to-ICU handover
• Immediate postoperative management — the first 24 hours, vasoplegia, primary non-function, coagulopathy, and ventilation strategy
• Vascular & biliary complications — hepatic artery and portal vein thrombosis, biliary leak and stricture
• Immunosuppression & rejection — protocols, surveillance, and diagnosis
• Infection & sepsis in the immunosuppressed recipient — a dedicated risk-staged approach
• Multiorgan complications — renal, neurological, cardiopulmonary, and nutritional care
• Special scenarios — retransplantation, living-donor care, paediatric transplant, ethics and end-of-life care
• Tiered review in every chapter — 20 questions graded Easy / Moderate / Difficult

Educational reference only — always follow your unit’s local protocols and clinical judgement.

By Dr. Gunadhar Padhi — Chief Intensivist, HN Reliance Foundation Hospital, Mumbai.