Gebhard Wagener, MD is Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center, Director, Vascular Anesthesia Division, Member Division of Critical Care Anesthesia

New edition is the only correct available book on the topic

Focuses on the practical aspect of liver anesthesiology and critical care

Provides a comprehensive and in-depth summary of the knowledge in this field

Includes new chapters on chronic liver failure and hepatic cirrhosis, preoperative risk assessment, the splanchnic and systemic circulation in liver disease, and analgesia for liver resection including regional techniques

Written for anesthesiologists and critical care physicians caring for patients undergoing liver surgery and transplantation

Section I: Physiology, Pathophysiology and Pharmacology of Liver Disease

1. Physiology and anatomy of the liver
2. Chronic liver failure and hepatic cirrhosis
3. The splanchnic and systemic circulation in liver disease
4. Drug metabolism in liver failure
5. Evaluation of liver function and injury

Section II: Anesthesiology for Liver Transplantation.

1. History of liver transplantation
2. Recipient and donor selection and transplant logistics: the European perspective
3. Recipient and donor selection and transplant logistics: the US perspective
4. Preoperative risk assessment
5. Surgical techniques of liver transplantation
6. Intra-operative monitoring
7. Anesthetic techniques and practice patterns
8. Caval crossclamping, piggy-bag & veno-venous bypass
9. 14. Hemodynamic manag

Section III: Anesthesiology for Liver Surgery.

1. Types of liver surgery and indications
2. Anesthetic management, monitoring, fluids & electrolytes
3. Anesthetic aspects of the living donor hepatectomy
4. Analgesia for l

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Section IV: Critical Care Medicine for Liver transplantation.

1. Routine postoperative care
2. Immunosuppression
3. Acute kidney injury
4. Early graft failure
5. Sepsis and infection
6. Respiratory failure and ARDS
Pain management

Section V: Critical care Medicine for Liver surgery.

1. The living related liver donor
2. Early complications: Liver failure, bile leak and sepsis