Liver Failure in the Pediatric ICU: Current Controversies (Pediatrics)

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Akash Deep, MD, FRCPCH

  Consultant Pediatric Intensivist
  n/a
  London, United Kingdom

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.

Acute liver failure in children is rare but devastating. Advances in critical care have dramatically improved survival, both with transplant and with spontaneous survival of the liver. This session will address some of the controversies in managing acute liver failure in children, such as bleeding versus the prothrombotic state, nontransplant management in acute liver failure, and extracorporeal support in acute liver failure.

Presentations:

• Coagulation in Acute Liver Failure: Bleeding Versus Prothrombotic State
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Yonca Bulut, MD, (she/her/hers) – UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital
• Survival Without Liver Transplant in Acute Liver Failure: Fact or Fiction
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Akash Deep, MD, FRCPCH – n/a
• Therapeutic Plasma Exchange in Children With Acute Liver Failure: Is It Time for Incorporation Into the ALF Armamentarium?
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Shina Menon (she/her/hers) – Seattle Children's Hospital
• Monitoring and Treatment fo Hepatic Encephalopathy
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Elizabeth Farrington, BCNSP, BCPS, PharmD – New Hanover Regional Medical Center
• Dosing Medications in Liver Failure
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Allison M. Chung, PharmD, BCPPS, FCCP (she/her/hers) – Auburn University Harrison School of Pharmacy