My friend has liver failure from hep b he is now on life support?

he canot talk his eyes are open, he needs a new liver , how long can he last with being on life support?

This is a hard time for you, your friend and the family, so sorry to hear that ! How long exactly is impossible to say, but if he is kept going with nutrients etc then hopefully he'll remain strong and a donor organ will come up real soon. Once in acute liver failure that is usually the only option. Once he has the transplant there is a whole new life to enjoy. Take care, all of you, stay positive and keep talking to him, please. Never assume that somebody cannot hear you only they seem unconscious. Your friend may preserve all his energy this way and well understand what is being said. It might give him all the hope he needs to hang on. All the best for you all.

he can not at this time unless he is brought out of comatoss state, which they do indue to keep injurys at bay keep watch for knewmonia it often happens, lots of prayers going out to you and i do not thank mine is good or get a way to get me tested would help any one that i could.

There is no set time for how long he can last while on life support. This is a critical stage for him. It varies from person to person.

One thing about liver transplants is that they can come from living donors. In that process, the liver from a matched donor is basically split in half and one half goes into the recepient. The liver has the amazing ability to regenerate. It's the only organ in the body that can do so. The liver is 2 lobes...one lobe is removed and transplanted into the recepient. When that is done, the missing lobes of both the donor and recepient will regenerate. Of course, there is more to it than that but that is the basics.

I hope that a liver is found in time. Unfortunately, there is a vast shortage of organs. Have family members been tested to see if any of them could make a living donor?

Keep us posted. Good luck.

People are placed on the transplant list
according to how long they will be able to
live without having a transplant done.
Someone who is fairly healthy, is at the bottom
of the list and may go off the list. Someone
at the top of the list, is extremely sick and
will need a transplant soon, since they
cannot go on living without one. Depending
on his conditions, the doctor may move him
to the top and that will give him the next
available donor organ that is a match to him.
He has to be in good enough condition to
go through the long surgery, though. This,
the doctors will have to decide on...they
won't take someone into surgery if they
think he will die on the table.
If he is in a coma, I doubt that surgery is an
option. If he is just on life support and is
awake, they may have it arranged for him
to have this surgery. I have to say that
life support systems do not keep the liver
functioning. There is nothing available to
take the place of the liver. Liver failure
is a process and not an end diagnosis.
A person can be in liver failure and still
live for awhile if they stablize them. It is
Complete liver failure, then the organ no
longer functions at all, that is when they
only have a very short time period to live.
I would ask the family and see if they know how
bad his condition is. It may give you some idea.
It is a good idea to be there for them and keep
them company. Being there will calm them
down when they hear a familiar voice in a
strange place. (it is said that coma patients
can also hear, so take this into consideration)
It helps to relax them. If he can point to something, take index cards with you and write on them: pain, I'm cold, I'm hot, I'm tired, hello,
good bye, and other things that when you show
him, he can point his finger at or nod his head to what he means. Being unable to talk with tubes down your nose and throat can be very frustrating.
I know this is very hard to accept. You want
so much to do something to help them. The
best thing you can do is be there and be with
them whenever you can. The more people,
they know, show that they care..the more
strength it will give them to come through all
they have to go through.