Remote ischemic preconditioning is an intervention in which brief ischemia of one tissue or organ protects remote organs from a sustained episode of ischemia. It is known that one-lung ventilation in patients undergoing pulmonary resection, which may cause acute lung injury. The investigators did a single-blinded randomised controlled study to establish whether remote ischemic preconditioning reduces lung injury in these patients.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether ischemic preconditioning reduces lung injury in patients undergoing pulmonary resection.