Massimiliano Greco, Gaetano Lombardi, Claudia Brusasco, Marina Pieri, Agostino Roasio, Fabrizio Monaco, Levan Berikashvili, Alessandro Belletti, Francesco Meroi, Stefano Fresilli, Aituar Kabibulatov, Giuseppe Giardina, Andrea Russo, Federico Mattia Oliva, Sergey Efremov, Rosalba Lembo, Lini Wang, Simone Vietri, Elena Momesso, Filippo D'Amico, Kristina Kadantseva, Rosa Labanca, Pavel Ryzhkov, Marilena Marmiere, Valery Subbotin, Alessandro Pruna, Nerlep Rana, Francesca Livi, Hugo Mantilla-Gutierrez, Fabio Guarracino, Lorenzo Schiavoni, Ivan Šitum, Marco Micali, Stefano Bosso, Anastasia Smirnova, Giuseppe Fresta, Andrey Cherednichenko, Luigi Beretta, Giacomo Monti, Lian Kah Ti, Pasquale Sansone, Francesco Corradi, Maurizio Cecconi, Andrey Yavorovskiy, Chong Lei, Aidos Konkayev, Tiziana Bove, Valery Likhvantsev, Alberto Zangrillo, Giovanni Landoni, Rinaldo Bellomo, Remo Daniel Covello, Stefano Turi
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Abstract
Background: Major noncardiac surgery carries high rates of postoperative myocardial injury and other complications. Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) was reported to decrease these complications. However, such supportive evidence lacks robustness.
Methods: In a multinational, double-blind trial, we randomly assigned adult high-risk patients undergoing noncardiac surgical procedures to receive RIPC or sham-RIPC after the induction of general anesthesia and before surgery. RIPC involved three 5-minute ischemic cycles, each followed by 5 minutes of reperfusion, using a blood-pressure cuff inflated to 200 mmHg. The primary endpoint was the rate of myocardial injury defined by an increase in postoperative troponin levels above the highest 99th percentile of reference values. Secondary outcomes included myocardial infarction, stroke, acute kidney injury, need for intensive care unit, length of hospital stay and 30-day all-cause mortality.
Results: We recruited 1213 patients in 25 hospitals and 8 countries. We randomly assigned 599 to RIPC and 614 to sham-RIPC. The most frequent surgical procedures were abdominal and intrathoracic surgeries (406 patients, 33.6%). RIPC was applied to the upper limb in 1,014 patients (84.8%) and to the lower limb in 182 patients (15.2%). Postoperative myocardial injury occurred in 215/566 patients (38.0%) in the RIPC group and in 223/596 patients (37.4%) in the sham-RIPC group (relative risk, 1.02; 95% confidence interval, 0.88 to 1.18; P=0.84). There were no significant differences in the rate of any secondary outcomes. We observed eleven episodes of limb petechiae (10 [1.7%] in the RIPC group vs 1 [0.2%] in the sham-RIPC group) and 34 (6.0%) hospital readmissions in the RIPC group vs 20 (3.5%) in the sham-RIPC group.
Conclusions: Among adult patients undergoing noncardiac surgery, RIPC did not reduce myocardial injury or other postoperative complications.
期刊介绍:
Circulation is a platform that publishes a diverse range of content related to cardiovascular health and disease. This includes original research manuscripts, review articles, and other contributions spanning observational studies, clinical trials, epidemiology, health services, outcomes studies, and advancements in basic and translational research. The journal serves as a vital resource for professionals and researchers in the field of cardiovascular health, providing a comprehensive platform for disseminating knowledge and fostering advancements in the understanding and management of cardiovascular issues.