Analgesic Efficacy of Erector Spinae Plane Block vs External Oblique Intercostal Plane Block in Subcostal Cancer Surgeries

Exclusion Criteria

• •Patient refusal.
• •Subcostal incisions that are crossing the midline or midline incision.
• •Age \<18 years or \>65 years
• •BMI \<20 kg/m2 and \>40 kg/m2
• •Known sensitivity or contraindication to drugs used in the study
• •Contraindication to regional anesthesia e.g. local infection at the site of introduction, pre-existing peripheral neuropathies, and coagulopathy.
• •Pregnancy.
• •Physical status ASA IV
• •patients on chronic analgesic therapy (daily morphine ≥30 mg or equivalent dose of other opioids or tramadol or any medication for neuropathic pain)
• •patients with a history of drug abuse
• •patients with neuropsychiatric diseases; patients with a history of chronic pain syndromes that may enhance sensitivity to pain, for example, fibromyalgia
• •All patients who are going to have severe intra- or post-operative bleeding or will require postoperative mechanical ventilation are also excluded from the study.