• Critical care clinics · Jan 2019

    Review

    Extracorporeal Devices.

    • Prem A Kandiah and Ram M Subramanian.
    • Division of Neuro Critical Care & co appt. in 5E Surgical/Transplant Critical Care, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University Hospital, 1364 Clifton Road Northeast, 2nd Floor, 2D ICU- D264, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Department of Neurology, Emory University Hospital, 1364 Clifton Road Northeast, 2nd Floor, 2D ICU- D264, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
    • Crit Care Clin. 2019 Jan 1; 35 (1): 135-150.

    AbstractExtracorporeal liver support (ECLS) emerged from the need stabilize high-acuity liver failure patients with the highest risk of death. The goal is to optimize the hemodynamic, neurologic, and biochemical parameters in preparation for transplantation or to facilitate spontaneous recovery. Patients with acute liver failure and acute-on-chronic liver failure stand to benefit from these devices, especially because they have lost many of the primary functions of the liver, including detoxifying the blood of various endogenous and exogenous substances, manufacturing circulating proteins, secreting bile, and storing energy. Existing ECLS devices are designed to mimic some of these functions.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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