Key result
Multidisciplinary perioperative management in liver transplantation addresses challenges from systemic disease and marginal donor organs.
Why the study?
Liver transplantation requires multidisciplinary anaesthetic involvement due to systemic liver disease implications and challenges from surgical techniques and graft quality.
Liver transplantation requires a multidisciplinary approach with anaesthetic involvement to manage the systemic implications of liver disease and surgical challenges.
May support early multidisciplinary input in liver transplant; leaves open need for prospective outcome studies.
Liver transplantation is a complex procedure that requires a truly multidisciplinary team approach with anaesthetic involvement from the outset in order to ensure excellent outcomes. Before a patient is placed on the waiting list for a liver transplant, a thorough evaluation is undertaken and his/her suitability for transplantation discussed in a patient selection committee meeting. The perioperative management of patients requiring transplantation can be challenging because of the systemic implications of liver disease, approaches to surgical technique and the quality of the grafts used; an increase in the use of marginal donor organs to meet the organ demand poses its own unique difficulties.
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Thakrar et al. (2017) conducted a review in Liver transplantation. Anaesthesia was evaluated. Perioperative management of liver transplantation requires a multidisciplinary approach to address challenges from systemic liver disease and the use of marginal donor organs.
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