The International journal of artificial organs
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Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Safety of citrate based hemofiltration in critically ill patients at high risk for bleeding: a comparison with nadroparin.
To study the incidence and severity of bleeding in high risk critically ill patients during high volume, citrate based continuous veno-venous hemofiltration (CVVH). ⋯ In high risk critically ill patients citrate based anticoagulation for CVVH is safe in terms of bleeding complications and transfusion requirements.
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Comparative Study
Impedance cardiography derived cardiac output in hemodialysis patients: a study of reproducibility and comparison with echocardiography.
Hemodialysis patients experience a variety of hemodynamic abnormalities that contribute to cardiovascular disease mortality which is the leading cause of death in these patients. Impedance cardiography has been utilized in order to monitor cardiac hemodynamics with lower cost and inconvenience, but it has not been appropriately validated in the hemodialysis population. ⋯ Impedance cardiography is a simple non invasive technique for cardiac output estimation in hemodialysis patients which has high reproducibility when performed under controlled conditions, and is closely correlated with echocardiographic measurements of cardiac output.