Under a volatile anesthetic with vasodilation, your coronary bloodflow is already maximal and your myocardial oxygen demand is minimal since you're typically not tachycardic due to diminished baroceptor reflexes. Increasing your DBP won't improve myocardial performance unless your MAP was critically low (like less than 50), or you have severe LVH, CAD, AS etc
My entire point is that phenylephrine's effects vary based on the volume status of the patient. Yes, it's a pig study (
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22556399) but preload (IVC flow), stroke volume, and CO
increase when the heart is preload dependent. When preload indepdent, MAP may still go up but CO goes down.
I think I've made this point enough times, up to you all whether you think it's a believable mechanism.