Acute Liver Failure

💊Treatment Options

• 1Treatment requires immediate hospitalization
• 2often in an intensive care unit
• 3to manage complications such as bleeding
• 4infection
• 5and elevated pressure within the skull from brain swelling. Specific antidotes
• 6such as N-acetylcysteine for acetaminophen toxicity
• 7are given when the cause is known and treatable. When liver function does not recover and the condition is severe
• 8emergency liver transplantation is often the only life-saving option
• 9making prompt referral to a transplant center critical.