Postoperative Analgesic Effect of Two Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Hip Surgery in Pediatrics

Hip joint surgery for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in children is extremely painful and associated with considerable postoperative pain despite the use of systemic opioids. Caudal anesthesia and lumbar plexus block (LPB) were still the most common regional anesthesia techniques for perioperative analgesia in children undergoing this type of surgery. recently, pediatric anesthesiologists don't consider choosing both techniques because of potential complications such as intravascular and intrathecal injection, and urine retention. novel peripheral nerve blocks have been advocated in pediatrics to avoid the aforementioned complications such as PEricapsular Nerve Group (PENG) block, Quadratus Lumborum Block (QLB), and Fascia Transversalis Plane Block (FTPB) The objective of the current study is to assess the analgesic efficacy of ultrasound-guided FTPB versus ultrasound-guided PENG block in pediatric patients undergoing open hip surgery for DDH