Liver Disease in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

By Nathan Nielsen / March 30, 2016

Pearls:

Hepatic Encephalopathy should be treated early and aggressively in Acute Liver Failure.
Hepatitidies A, B, E are the most common cause of Acute Liver Failure in the developing world.
Acetaminophen overdose (often chronic and accidental in nature) is the most common cause of Acute Liver Failure in western countries.
Only a certain subset of patients can be treated with prednisolone for Alcoholic Hepatitis, follow the Lille Score.
Twice daily proton pump inhibitors seem to be as effective as drips for ulcerative upper GI bleeds.

Karin Halvorson trained in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at UIC Chicago followed by a Fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brown University. She is currently the ICU Director at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care Center with a Faculty appointment at Tulane University.

Dr. Karin Halvorson earned her medical degree from the University of Hawaii. She completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Subsequently she attended Brown University for her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. While at Brown she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and earned the 2014 Fellow Teaching Award. She served as the liaison between the emergency department and the intensive care unit during her time at Brown.

Dr. Halvorson is the Medical Director of Critical Care at Tulane University Medical Center where she splits her time between the MICU and the ED. Dr. Halvorson’s research interests are on ED to ICU transitions and optimizing early critical care. She is also invested in medical education and works with Housestaff on Quality Improvement Projects for Tulane University Medical Center.

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