Beneficial use of predilution in reducing the amount of anticoagulation and the occurrence of bleeding during CRRT in critically ill patients: a prospective randomized study

Table

	Predilution	Postdilution
	group n = 10	group n = 10	P value
Median filter life in hours	38.5	39.3	>0.05
Median filter efficiency in hours	32.3	33.9	>0.05
Symptomatic bleeding	1	4	<0.01
(during the study period)
Median amount of heparin	451 U/h	742 U/h	<0.01

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