Clinical review Anticoagulation for continuous renal replacement therapy - heparin or citrate.docVIP

Oudemans-van Straaten et al. Critical Care 2011, 15:202 /content/15/1/202 REVIEW Clinical review: Anticoagulation for continuous renal replacement therapy - heparin or citrate? Heleen M Oudemans-van Straaten *, John A Kellum and Rinaldo Bellomo 1 2 3 there are accumulating data on a potential better alternative, regional anticoagulation with citrate. In the present review, we discuss some of the complex inter- actions between heparin and the coagulation a