Society guideline links: Acute liver failure

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Pediatric liver disease" and "Society guideline links: Liver transplantation" and "Society guideline links: Drug-induced liver injury".)

International

●Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): Guidelines for the management of adult acute and acute-on-chronic liver failure in the ICU – Cardiovascular, endocrine, hematologic, pulmonary, and renal considerations (2020)

United States

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Acute-on-chronic liver failure clinical guidelines (2022)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute liver failure (2017)

●AGA: Technical review on initial testing and management of acute liver disease (2017)

●American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD): Position paper – The management of acute liver failure, update, 2011 (published 2012)

Europe

●European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL): Clinical practical guidelines on the management of acute (fulminant) liver failure (2017)

India

●Indian National Association for the Study of the Liver (INASL): Consensus statement on acute liver failure (part 1) – Epidemiology, pathogenesis, presentation and prognosis (2020)

Japan

●Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL): Guidelines on acute-on-chronic liver failure – Consensus recommendations: An update (2019)

•APASL: Guidelines on acute-on-chronic liver failure – Consensus recommendations (2014)