The End-Organ Impairment in Liver Cirrhosis: Appointments for Critical Care

<table class="table-group" id="tab7"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Grade 0</td><td align="left">Minimal hepatic encephalopathy, no asterixis, and trivial changes in personality or behavior</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Grade 1</td><td align="left">Trivial lacks of awareness, attention, sleep disturbances, altered mood, and asterixis</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Grade 2</td><td align="left">Lethargy, apathy, time disorientation, amnesia to recent events, inappropriate behavior, slurred speech, asterixis.</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Grade 3</td><td align="left">Somnolence, confusion, time and place disorientation, bizarre behaviour, clonus, nystagmus, positive Babinski sign, and absent asterixis</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Grade 4</td><td align="left">Coma</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

 The West Haven criteria for hepatic encephalopathy.

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Table 7: The End-Organ Impairment in Liver Cirrhosis: Appointments for Critical Care 