NEJM - schemic Preconditioning for Heart Surgery

"A Multicenter Trial of Remote Ischemic Preconditioning for Heart Surgery"

"CONCLUSIONS

Upper-limb RIPC performed while patients were under propofol-induced anesthesia did not show a relevant benefit among patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery. (Funded by the German Research Foundation; RIPHeart ClinicalTrials.gov number,NCT01067703.)"

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1413579?query=featured_home