Pediatric Liver Intensive Care

Dr Naresh Shanmugam is a highly qualified paediatric hepatologist and heads the Pediatric Liver, GI and Nutrition unit at Dr. Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Chennai, India. He is also the Director of the Institute of Advanced Paediatrics, which specializes in multi organ transplantation in children.  He has worked at King’s College Hospital and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, both in London. His area of special interest is metabolic liver diseases and liver intensive care.  He is a fellow of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK and alumnus of the University of Surrey, Guildford, Madras Medical College & Research Institute, Chennai and Stanley Medical College, Chennai. Dr. Shanmugam has written several publications related to paediatric liver diseases. Prof Anil Dhawan is a consultant in paediatric hepatology at King's College Hospital, London. He is the Head of the Liver GI andNutrition Centre and Mowat Labs and the Corporate Medical Director of the Variety Children's Hospital, London. Prof Dhawan is the founder and the Head the Basic Science Laboratories (MowatLabs) at the Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital, London. He has held board-level appointments at the European Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, International Liver Transplantation Society and Cell Transplantation Society. He was the President of the Cell Transplant and Regenerative Medicine Society. He is on the editorial board of several journals and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles in the field of hepatology and hepatocyte transplantation and has edited four textbooks on liver disease in children and hepatocyte transplantation. He is a regular invited speaker at prestigious adult and paediatric liver meetings across the world.

Acute liver failure.- Chronic liver disease.- CLD complication: hepatic encephalopathy.- Post-liver transplantation management.- Combined kidney liver transplantation.- Metabolic liver disease.- Anesthetic consideration in pediatric transplantation.- Liver biopsy.- Variceal bleed.- Post-kasai management in ICU.- Post-liver tumour resection I in ICU.- Plasmapheresis and plasma exchange in liver disease.- General care.- Accelerated vaccination chart for children with liver disease.- Downloadable forms.