Start Date
February 28, 2009
Primary Completion Date
February 28, 2009
Study Completion Date
February 28, 2009
Remote Ischemic Preconditioning
RIPC will be induced during anesthesia by four 5-min cycles of upper limb ischemia and 5-min reperfusion using a blood-pressure cuff inflated to a pressure 15 mm Hg greater than the systolic arterial pressure measured via the arterial line.
Control/sham procedure
Sham placement of the blood pressure cuff around the upper limb without inflation.
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main
Collaborators (1)
Goethe University
OTHER
Patrick Meybohm
OTHER