ICU Care of Abdominal Organ Transplant Patients

Edited by Ali Al-Khafaji

Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine

First critical care text to address abdominal organ transplants
Covers both pre- and post-operative care
Offers concrete solutions to questions and situations confronted by ICU clinicians

ICU Care of Abdominal Organ Transplant Patients

Edited by Ali Al-Khafaji

Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine

Description

Pre- and post-operative care of transplant patients is an aspect of Critical Care Medicine in which most ICU physicians and nurses have received little or no formal training and are left to cope with this complex population with only incomplete "on the job experience" as a guide. In response to this clinical knowledge gap, ICU Care of Abdominal Organ Transplant Patients provides a concise at the bedside resource fo intensivists, surgeons, and nurses caring for abdominal organ transplant patients before and after surgery.

In a concise, practical style, the authors offer concrete solutions to questions and situations confronted by ICU clinicians. Chapters address general principles of immunosuppression, infectious complications, management, and nursing considerations plus indications, approach to anesthesia, transplant procedure, and post-operative course for liver, kidney, pancreas, islet cell, and small bowel and multivsceral transplantation.

ICU Care of Abdominal Organ Transplant Patients

Edited by Ali Al-Khafaji

Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine

Section 1: ICU 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

ICU Care of Abdominal Organ Transplant Patients

Edited by Ali Al-Khafaji

Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine

Author Information

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

Contributors:

Ali Abdullah, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Kareem Abu-Elmagd, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Christie Bayer

Deanna Blisard, MD
Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Charles Boucek, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Abhideep Chaudhary, MD
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Su Min Cho, MD, MRCP
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Kapil B. Chopra, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director of Hepatology
Medical Director, Liver Transplantation
Medical Director, Comprehensive Liver Program, UPMC Liver Pancreas Ins
Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship Program
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Guilherme Costa, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor
General Surgery Residency Program
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mathew Cove, MD
Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Susan DeRubis
Staff Nurse
Transplant Intensive Care Unit
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Rebecca Gooch, MD
Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Tracy Grogan

Jana G. Hashash, MD
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Richard J. Hendrickson, MD, FACS, FAAP
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Kansas City, Missouri

Ibtesam Hilmi, MD, FRCA
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Abhinav Humar M.D.
Professor
Department of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
and
Chief of Transplantation
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Prem A. Kandiah, MD

Michael C Koprucki, MD
Division of General Internal Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ahmad Maarouf, MD
Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jerry McAuley, MD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery
Director, Transplant Nephrology, UPMC Transplantation Institute
Medical Director, Kidney/Pancreas Transplantation
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Juan Mejia, M.D
General Surgery Resident
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

Thiruvengadam Muniraj, MD
Internal Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

M. Hong Nguyen, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases
Director, Antimicrobial Management Program
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Stephen O'Keefe, MD
Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Small Intestinal Rehabilitation & Transplant Center
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Federico Palacio, MD

Raymond Planinsic, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology
Director of Transplantation Anesthesiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Jose Renan da Cunha-Melo, MD, PhD
General Surgery & Digestive Tract Surgery
Hospital das Clinicas UFMG

Ely M. Sebastian, MD
Center for Organ Transplantation
Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center
Camden, New Jersey

Faraaz Shah, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Renal-Electrolyte Division
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ron Shapiro, MD
Professor of Surgery
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Kate Sweeny

Martin Wijkstrom, MD
Assistant Professor
General Surgery Residency Program
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sachin Yende, MD MS
Associate Professor
Director of CRISMA Research Fellowship
Department of Critical Care Medicine
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

ICU Care of Abdominal Organ Transplant Patients

Edited by Ali Al-Khafaji

Pittsburgh Critical Care Medicine

Reviews and Awards

"This is a quick introduction to care of a complex patient group. The presentation is clear, but additional diagrams and references could be helpful. Readers should be aware that the greatest emphasis is on liver transplantation, which is the topic of half of the chapters." -- DOODY'S