Abdominal Transplantation

Solid organ transplantation is now performed in hundreds of academic and private hospitals across the nation, with most of them being kidney and liver transplants. Patient outcome has dramatically improved over recent decades due to significant advances in immunosuppression and perioperative care of transplant patients. A well-defined, protocol-driven multidisciplinary team approach has been established in most transplant centers; thus transplant services are well ahead of most other surgical service lines. At a minimum, institutional protocols define preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management of these complex patients. Increasingly, these protocols are often built on evidence-based information rather than single institutional experience.
Source: Anesthesiology Clinics - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Source Type: research