When the Liver Becomes Available

If you are waiting for a transplant and are living outside of the hospital, you will be given a “beeper”. This is to be carried at all times to enable the transplant coordinator to contact you when you are not at home. When a suitable liver is found, you will be notified by telephone in your home or at another number where you can be reached. If you are not at home, you will be contacted through your “beeper”. When you are “beeped”, you must call the hospital immediately and ask for the Transplant coordinator, on the weekends, ask for your doctor.

Once you are told that a transplant will take place:

• DO NOT eat anything

• DO NOT drink anything

• DO report to the Admitting Department "AS SOON AS POSSIBLE"

Once you are on the Transplant Unit, you can expect:

• NOT to eat or drink anything

• TO have a lot of blood work drawn

• TO have an intravenous (IV) started

• TO be asked for a urine specimen

• TO have a chest x-ray (CXR)

• TO have an electrocardiogram (ECG)

• TO have tap water enemas until your bowels are clear