Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
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J R Soc Med
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Review Meta Analysis
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the cardioprotective effects of remote ischaemic preconditioning in open cardiac surgery.
To investigate the cardioprotective efficacy of remote ischaemic preconditioning (RIPC) in cardiac surgery. ⋯ Although our analysis suggests RIPC may result in cardiac protection during cardiac surgery, the effect was most marked in studies without full blinding, with a smaller and statistically non-significant effect in fully blinded studies. We propose that further double blind randomized controlled trials investigating the cardioprotective effects of RIPC in cardiac surgery are required to resolve the current clinical uncertainty.