The liver transplant team at Mayo Clinic in Florida has found, based on 12 years of experience, that more than half of patients receiving a new liver can be "fast-tracked" to return to a surgical ward following their transplant, bypassing a one- or two-day stay in the Intensive Care Unit. For the September issue of the American Journal of Transplantation, the physicians and researchers have created a scoring system, sparing patients potentially overly aggressive treatment and saving substantial health care dollars.
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