Anesthesia and Intensive Care for Patients with Liver Disease

Part 1 Assessment: normal liver function and hepatic circulation; causes of liver disease; liver function tests. Part 2 Pharmacology: volative anaesthetics and the liver; sedative and analgesic drugs; pharmakinetics and pharmodynamics of non-depolarizing muscle relaxants. Part 3 Anaesthetic considerations: diagnostic endoscopy, scleropathy, and biliary procedures; major hepatic procedures; liver transplantation; coagulation in liver disease and massive blood transfusion; anaesthesia for the paediatric patient requiring hepatic surgery; obstetric patient with liver disease. Part 4 Intensive care: acute liver failure; intensive care of patients after liver surgery; bacterial infection and the liver; perioperative care of patients with Hepatitis B; nutrition in perioperative care; drug-induced liver disease.