Liver critical care unit

The Royal Free Hospital is one of a very few specialist hospitals for patients with liver failure or in need of a liver transplant. Patients are transferred to our liver critical care unit (LCCU) from London and across the United Kingdom.

Our patients are looked after by doctors, nurses, and other team members with expertise in caring for ill patients with liver disease. Our team are experienced in caring for all types of liver diseases, but some common reasons patients are referred to LCCU are:

• acute liver failure 
• complications of chronic liver disease (like cirrhosis)
• bleeding from the digestive tract
• need for a liver transplant
• pancreatitis 
• need for complex liver, gall bladder or pancreas surgery 

The intensive care teams have daily meetings with other teams such as liver medicine specialists (hepatologists), liver surgeons, and infectious disease doctors to plan the best possible care for our patients.

We have a long history of developing new therapies for liver failure and working with colleagues at UCL and across the world we can offer our patients the most up to date treatments for liver disease.