Acute liver failure. Experience in a special unit.
Acute liver failure involves disturbances of all major organ systems. The pathophysiology of these disturbances are reviewed and details of management for each system is discussed in clinical work in a special Liver Failure Unit is used to derive principles of treatment, and the use of extracorporeal charcoal haemoperfusion is outlined.
D000137:Acid-Base Imbalance / Q000628:therapy; D002606:Charcoal / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy; D006501:Hepatic Encephalopathy / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006757:Hospital Units; D006801:Humans; D006985:Hyperventilation / Q000628:therapy; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000150:complications; D008659:Metabolic Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D010477:Perfusion; D010564:Personnel, Hospital
D002606:Charcoal