Abdominal Cancer Surgery

The objective of this study is to develop and evaluate the implementation of novel timeline-specific National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)-style clinical guidelines designed to improve functional outcomes after high-risk abdominal surgery for cancer.

Surgical trauma activates numerous receptors leading to severe postoperative pain. Seventy to seventy-five percent of the pain is somatic, originating from the anterior abdominal wall, and it often persists for 72 hours after open surgery. The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy and safety of adding dexmedetomidine to Levobupivacaine in rectus sheath block with quadrates lumborum block in patients undergoing lower abdominal cancer surgeries.