Remote Ischemic Preconditioning Before Abdominal Surgery

Lawson Health Research Institute

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Perioperative/Postoperative Complications

Treatments: Procedure: Remote Ischemic Pre-conditioning; Procedure: Control

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01340742

16811 (Other Identifier)

R-10-132

Details and patient eligibility

About

Major abdominal surgeries are associated with perioperative cardiac morbidity of up to 10%.

Ischemic preconditioning may have a protective effect. The purpose of this study is to find out remote ischemic conditioning by inflating a blood pressure cuff on the arm will have a protective effect.

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients undergoing abdominal surgery:large bowel, pancreatic and hepatic surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Chronic inflammatory disease.
• Glyburide use before surgery.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

1

Active Comparator group

Description:

Arm remote preconditioning

Treatment:

Procedure: Remote Ischemic Pre-conditioning

2

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Control group.

Treatment:

Procedure: Control