Parasternal Blocks

It has been the key step in my consistent use of on-table extubation and the movie shows how perform the parasternal blocks. There are 4 main points:1) A large needle (18 guage) 2) 50:50 mixture of plain bupivicaine 0.25% and lidocaine 1%. No epinephrine is used 3) Infusion into the chest tube tracts, and 4) Infusion into each interspace along (http://www.hsforum.com/stories/storyReader$3700)