TY - JOUR
T1 - The ten tips to manage critically ill patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure.
AU - Fuhrmann, V
AU - Whitehouse, T
AU - Wendon, Julia
PY - 2018/1
Y1 - 2018/1
N2 - Patients with liver cirrhosis represent 2–5% of the intensive care unit (ICU) population [1, 2]; their admission is associated with a high mortality (36–86%) [3,4,5]. Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is present in most of these patients. This article provides ten tips to support intensivists treating patients with ACLF.
AB - Patients with liver cirrhosis represent 2–5% of the intensive care unit (ICU) population [1, 2]; their admission is associated with a high mortality (36–86%) [3,4,5]. Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is present in most of these patients. This article provides ten tips to support intensivists treating patients with ACLF.
UR - http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29387913
U2 - 10.1007/s00134-018-5078-z
DO - 10.1007/s00134-018-5078-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 29387913
SN - 0342-4642
VL - 44
SP - 1932
EP - 1935
JO - Intensive Care Medicine
JF - Intensive Care Medicine
ER -