ESP Block for Post Cesarean Analgesia

This will be a case control study with a prospective and a retrospective component. Women undergoing elective cesarean delivery under spinal or combined spinal epidural anesthesia will be approached to participate in the prospective open label component of the study. Those women will receive the standard of care intraoperative and postoperative analgesic regimen used at Duke university incorporating 100 mcg intrathecal morphine, intraoperative acetaminophen 975 mg PR and ketorolac 15 mg IV and postoperative scheduled oral acetaminophen 975 mg every 6 hours, scheduled 15 mg IV ketorolac for 3 doses every 6 hours followed by oral ibuprofen 600 mg every 6 hours. At the end of surgery, a bilateral ESPB will be performed under ultrasound guidance using 133 mg liposomal bupivacaine and 20 ml bupivacaine 0.25% per side. Cases will be matched in a 1:4 ratio by age, race, history of prior cesarean delivery, and insurance status with historical controls who received the same multimodal analgesic regimen but no truncal blocks.