Clinical practice guidelines for chronic hemodialysis recommend heparin anticoagulation for the majority of hemodialysis patients. Listen to this podcast, in which George Aronoff, MD, discusses the importance of using heparin in hemodialysis, the risks involved with prescribing heparin and the conditions under which physicians could consider prescribing heparin-free dialysis.

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