Anticoagulation strategies in venovenous hemodialysis in critically ill patients: a five-year evaluation in a surgical intensive care unit.

Renal failure is a common complication among critically ill patients. Timing, dosage, and mode of renal replacement (RRT) are under debate, but also anticoagulation strategies and vascular access interfere with dialysis success. We present a retrospective, five-year evaluation of patients requiring RRT on a multidisciplinary 50-bed surgical intensive care unit of a university hospital with special regard to anticoagulation strategies and vascular access.

How free of residual cells and cell antigens is human blood plasma? A comparison of different production methods of human blood plasma and the risk of the products for patients.

The aim of this investigation was to compare 11 different production procedures for human blood plasma, using preparative apheresis and whole blood. We intended to determine the plasma quality in regard to the number of residual cells or cell fragments. Cells were analysed using the Cell-Dyn 4000 blood cell counter and cell fragments were detected by an immunoassay.