RIPC Remains a Promising Technique for Protection of the Myocardium during Open Cardiac Surgery: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.

Background: Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) is the process of inducing brief ischemia in a tissue to prevent ischemic damage in another. This preconditioning can be induced simply by inflating a blood pressure cuff on a limb. Previous randomized controlled trials (RCT) have suggested that RIPC may infer myocardial protection during open cardiac surgery.