The magic of remote ischaemic preconditioning
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block coronary artery
unblock coronary artery
measure size of infarct
Ischaemia / reperfusion
cycles
1. What the patient can do 2. How the patient feels3. Whether the patient is alive4. Does it save money
all that
matters
1.Heart surgery 2.PCI3.CVA with thrombolysis or clot
retrieval4.Vascular surgery5.Hypoxic ischaemic
encephalopathy6.Organ transplantation
1. Don’t believe single-centre studies
2. Always think about biological plausibility3. Treat findings in secondary endpoints as
hypothesis generating
4. Don’t be misled by surrogate endpoints