Acute Liver Failure
title: Liver Failure tags: #FFICM notebook: ð-FFICM type: inprogress
source: [[mcqs-and-sbas-in-intensive-care-medicine-oxford-higher-special-training]]
| Flashcard | type:basic |
|---|---|
| Hyperacute liver failure onset is jaundice to encephalopathy in what time scale? | Less than 1 week |
| Acute liver failure onset is jaundice to encephalopathy in what time scale? | Between a week to a month |
| Subacute liver failure onset is jaundice to encephalopathy in what time scale? | Longer than a month |
| What do you measure the timescale of when determining the category of Acute Liver Failure? | Time between onset of jaundice and onset of encephalopathy |
| The timescale of acute liver failure can be categorised into: | Hyperacute, Acute, and Subacute |
| If in liver failure, you go from jaundice onset to encephalopathy in less than a week, what category of liver failure is that? | Hyperacute |
| If in liver failure, you go from jaundice onset to encephalopathy in less than a month but more than a week, what category of liver failure is that? | Acute |
| If in liver failure, you go from jaundice onset to encephalopathy in more than a month, what category of liver failure is that? | Subacute |
| Should you give prophylactic antibiotics in acute liver failure? | Yes |
| Should you give prophylactic antifungals in acute liver failure? | Yes |
| Should you give prophylactic gut decontamination in acute liver failure encephalopathy? | No |
| Should you give prophylactic lactulose in acute liver failure encephalopathy? | No |
| Can you use lactate to prognosticate mortality in liver failure from paracetamol? | Yes |
| Should you anticoagulate for RRT with citrate or heparin in Acute Liver Failure? | Citrate |
| In Acute Liver Failure, what is the risk of anticoagulating for RRT with citrate? | Hypocalcaemia |
| What is the incidence of AKI needing RRT when the patient already has Acute Liver Failure? | Around three quarters |