Overview
This study aims to compare the efficacy of ultrasound-guided QL block and TAP block for postoperative pain management following lower abdominal surgeries.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- patients aged from 18 to 65 years old.
- American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) physical status I - II.
- Patients scheduled for elective lower abdominal surgery.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient refusal.
- Patients with BMI (body mass index) > 35 kg.m-2 , [morbid obesity].
- Patients with significant neurological, psychatric or neuromascular disease.
- Patients had local skin infection at the block injection site.
- Patients who operated under epidural and patient-controlled analgesia [PCA].
- Sensitivity to prescribed analgesia.
- Coagulopathies or those who had uncontrolled chronic medical disease [e.g. diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or cardiac diseases].