ICU Care of Abdominal Organ Transplant Patients

Assistant Professor and Consultant; Director of Transplant Intensive Care Unit, Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Section 1: Intensive Care Unit Management of Patients with Decompensated Liver Disease ; Chapter 1. Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis ; Chapter 2. Hepatic Encephalopathy ; Chapter 3. Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding ; Chapter 4. Refractory Ascitis and Hepatic Hydrothorax ; Chapter 5. Acute Kidney Injury including Hepatorenal Syndrome ; Chapter 6. Respiratory Failure in patients with End Stage Liver Disease ; Chapter 7. Malnutrition in Chronic Liver Disease ; Section 2: Transplantation ; Chapter 8. General Principles of Immunesuppression ; Chapter 9. Infectious complications after abdominal solid organ transplant ; Chapter 10. General Management of Transplant Patients in the ICU ; Chapter 11. Nursing Considerations ; Chapter 12. Indications for Liver Transplantation ; Chapter 13. An Approach to Anesthesia for Liver Transplantation ; Chapter 14. Liver transplant procedure ; Chapter 15.Graft dysfunction and Technical Complications after Liver Transplant ; Chapter 16. Kidney Transplantation ; Chapter 17: Anesthesia Care for Kidney Transplant Recipients ; Chapter 18. Kidney Transplantation: Surgical techniques ; Chapter 19: Pancreas Transplantation ; Chapter 20: Anesthetic Management of Pancreatic Transplant Recipients. ; Chapter 21: Surgical Techniques of Pancreas Transplantation ; Chapter 22: Islet Cell Transplantation ; Chapter 23: Small Bowel and Multivisceral transplantation