INDEX

🔹 Acute GI Bleeding

  • Upper  GI bleed
  • Lower GI bleed


🔹 Liver Failure

  • Acute Liver Failure (ALF)
  • Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure (ACLF)
  • Hepatic encephalopathy
  • Coagulopathy in liver disease: INR vs thromboelastography (TEG/ROTEM)
  • Cerebral edema in ALF: ICP monitoring, mannitol, hypertonic saline
  • spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP)
  • Prognostic scores: MELD, Child-Pugh, CLIF-C ACLF score
  • Liver transplant indications and ICU optimization


🔹 Pancreatitis


🔹 Gastrointestinal Motility and Nutrition

  • Ileus vs mechanical obstruction
  • Ogilvie syndrome (acute colonic pseudo-obstruction)
  • ICU-related gastroparesis
  • Early enteral nutrition vs parenteral nutrition
  • Refeeding syndrome
  • Assessment of feeding intolerance


🔹 Hepatobiliary Infections

  • Cholangitis
  • Liver abscess (pyogenic vs amoebic)
  • Hydatid cyst rupture
  • Fungal infections in hepatobiliary ICU patients


🔹 GI Complications in ICU

  • Stress ulcers and GI prophylaxis
  • Mesenteric ischemia: diagnosis (CT angio), early surgery
  • Ischemic colitis
  • Clostridioides difficile colitis
  • GI perforation and peritonitis in ICU


🔹 Portal Hypertension

  • Varices: esophageal
  • Hepatorenal syndrome (HRS)
  • Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) and portopulmonary hypertension


🔹 Liver Support Systems

  • MARS (Molecular Adsorbents Recirculating System)
  • SPAD, Prometheus


🔹 Abdominal Compartment Syndrome


🔹 Transplant and Immunosuppression

  • Post-liver transplant complications in ICU: rejection, infection, biliary stricture
  • Drug monitoring (tacrolimus, cyclosporine)
  • Management of sepsis in immunosuppressed patients