Optimal Peripheral Nerve Block After Minimally Invasive Colon Surgery

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients planned to receive curative elective minimally invasive colon surgery for colon cancer or adenoma without a planned ostomy. Colon cancer or adenoma is defined by a distance of more than 15 cm from the anal verge to the distal limitation of the tumour or adenoma as measured by rigid sigmoidoscope. The following procedural codes are included: * Laparoscopic ileocecal resection * Laparoscopic right hemicolectomy * Other laparoscopic resection of both small and large bowel * Laparoscopic resection of transverse colon * Laparoscopic left hemicolectomy * Laparoscopic resection of sigmoid colon * Other laparoscopic colon resection * Having given informed written consent. Exclusion Criteria: * Known allergy to local analgesics * Known liver failure Class C according to the Child-Pugh Score * Body weight of less than 40 kg * History of being a chronic pain patient (weekly intake WHO step II or step III or adjuvant step I analgesic) * Presence of concomitant painful conditions other than low back pain that could confound the subject's trial assessments or self-evaluation of the index pain, e.g., syndromes with widespread pain such as fibromyalgia * Predictably non-compliant due to language barrier or psychiatric disease * Patients rescheduled for open surgery, before the intervention has been administered * Patients where the indication for surgery changes before the intervention has been administered * Patients with known inflammatory bowel disease * …