Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Perioperative clinical practice in liver transplantation: a cross-sectional survey
Authors' conclusion
Different interventions were reported to be used regarding most components of perioperative care in liver transplantation.
Study context
- Population
- Canadian anesthesiologists, Canadian surgeons and French anesthesiologists specialised in liver transplantationresponse rate 71% Canada, 26% France
- Participants
- 130 participants
- Outcome
- Reported perioperative practice in liver transplantation
Methodological detailsonline clinical practice survey, Likert-type scales
- Online clinical practice survey
- Likert-type scales
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Restrictive fluid strategy for hemodynamic instability during dissection phase
- Fifty-nine percent
- Viscoelastic tests to guide intraoperative transfusion
- Forty-two percent
- Viscoelastic tests to guide postoperative transfusion
- 15%
- Not pre-emptively treating preoperative coagulation disturbances
- Fifty-four percent
- Treating coagulation disturbances intraoperatively only when bleeding significant
- 91%
- No opinion on maximal graft ischemic times
- 48-64%
- Piggyback technique preferred vena cava anastomosis approach
- Forty-seven percent
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Perioperative clinical practice in liver transplantation: a cross-sectional survey. Can J Anaesth. Published 2 June 2023. doi:10.
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