Association between anesthesiologist experience and mortality after orthotopic liver transplantation
Ira Hofer, John Spivack, Miguel Yaport, Jeron Zerillo, David L. Reich, David Wax, Samuel DeMaria – 4 October 2014 – The anesthesiologist has been recognized as an integral member of the liver transplant team, and previous studies have demonstrated that inter‐anesthesiologist variability can be a driver of outcomes for high‐risk patients. We hypothesized that anesthesiologist experience, defined as the number of previous liver transplants performed at our institution, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, would be independently associated with outcomes for liver transplant patients.