acute liver failure complications
- related: acute liver failure in the ICU
- tags: #literature #icu #GI
- use NAC in acute liver failure can improve survival regardless of etiology
- Biggest risk of death is cerebral edema: acute liver failure can cause cerebral edema and hepatic encephalopathy
- do not prophylactically target INR
- these patients lose both procoagulant and anticoagulant
- follow INR as a trend to see how liver is doing
- sepsis kill these patients
- early RRT
- if glucose goes down, then liver is really dying1