Table 3.

King’s College hospital selection criteria for adult super-urgent liver transplantation¹⁴

Criteria for liver transplantation in paracetamol-induced acute liver failure	Criteria for liver transplantation in non-paracetamol-induced acute liver failure
pH <7.3 following fluid resuscitation and >24 hours since paracetamol ingestion or lactate >3 following resuscitation or all of the following in a 24-hour period: INR >6.5 (PT >100 seconds) Cr >300 μmol/L grade 3 or 4 encephalopathy.	INR >6.5 (PT >100 seconds) or Any three of the following variables: age <10 or >40 years aetiology – non-A/B hepatitis, drug induced duration of jaundice to encephalopathy >7 days INR >3.5 (PT >50 seconds) serum bilirubin >300 μmol/L.

Cr = creatinine; INR = international normalised ratio; PT = prothrombin time.