“…Central remote ischemic preconditioning has been, however, fairly dismissed in on pump cardiac surgery and during interventional cardiology procedure for its impracticality and its high level of invasiveness [ 2 , 3 , 49 ]. It is important to stress that some of the RIPC and central IP trials did not state the type of anesthesia used [ 13 , 23 ], or deliberately used propofol as anesthetic maintenance [ 12 , 16 - 18 , 20 ], while very few did not use it [ 19 , 21 , 22 ]. Recently it has been reported that propofol may inhibit preconditioning effect, and large trials have intentionally avoided it use [ 50 ].…”