A large number of patients undergoing major surgical procedures for the management of breast cancer complain of acute and chronic postoperative pain. Morphine administration for acute pain after mastectomy surgery has many side effects. Regional block techniques, such as paravertebral block and thoracic epidural anaesthesia, have possible complications and technical difficulties. So, we will discuss adding dexmedetomidine as an adjuvant to bupivacaine for serratus-intercostal versus erector-spinae plane block to relieve post-mastectomy pain.
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