Perioperative Factors and Living Donor Liver Transplantation

After induction of anesthesia, the paired RIPC group took the RIPC intervention on the upper arm in the lateral position. The RIPC intervention was applied using a manual cuff inflator, which consisted of three cycles of 5-min inflation of the blood pressure cuff (to 250 mmHg, or to 50 mmHg higher than the preoperative SBP), followed by 5-min deflation of the cuff. In the no-RIPC group, a blood pressure cuff was also applied on the upper arm but was not inflated.