Cardiac surgical patients often experience significant postoperative pain at the median sternotomy site. In pediatric cardiac surgery, the recommended pre bypass dose of fentanyl to blunt the hemodynamic and metabolic stress response is 25-50 µg/kg Today lower doses are often used in order to achieve early extubation at such doses there is no guarantee that the stress response is completely abolished one way to overcome this problem is the use of the local anesthetic technique Regional anesthetic techniques reduce pain for up to 24 hours after cardiac surgery in children. Pectointercostal fascial block was first described by de la Torre in patients undergoing breast surgery. This novel technique blocks the anterior cutaneous nerve which is a branch of the intercostal nerve that gives sensory supply to the skin.
Age range
2 Years – 12 Years
Sex
ALL
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Postoperative pain assessment
Timeframe: Postoperative day 1
Total dose of fentanyl requirements
Timeframe: intraoperative and 24 hrs postoperatively